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SAT Vocabulary
SAT Vocabulary pt 20
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| digression | a message that departs from the main subject |
| disclaimer | a voluntary repudiation of legal claim to something |
| discord | lack of agreement or harmony |
| disillusion | the act of freeing from false belief |
| disingenuous | not straightforward or candid |
| disinterested | unaffected by concern for one's own welfare |
| dismiss | stop associating with |
| disparate | fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind |
| dispel | to cause to separate and go in different directions |
| disperse | move away from each other |
| disseminate | cause to become widely known |
| docile | easily handled or managed |
| doctrine | a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school |
| dogmatic | pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative |
| dubious | fraught with uncertainty or doubt |
| deity | (n) a god or goddess |
| demagogue | a leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions |
| demean | reduce in worth or character, usually verbally |
| denounce | speak out against |
| deplore | express strong disapproval of |
| dearth | an insufficient quantity or number |
| debilitate | make weak |
| defiance | a hostile challenge |
| defraud | (v) to cheat; to gain something dishonestly, as through a lie, deception, or confidence game |
| degenerate | a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable |