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Alessio_GRE_61-80
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Disparate | Basically different; unrelated. Unfortunately, Tony and Tina have disparate notions of marriage. |
| Dissemble | Disguise; pretend. Even though John tried to dissemble his motive for taking dance, we knew he was there to meet girls. |
| Disseminate | Distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds). Propagandists have been able to disseminate their doctrine to new audiences around the globe. |
| Dissolution | Breaking of a union; decay; termination. Which caused King Lear more suffering: the dissolution of his kingdom, or the dissolution of his aged, failing body? |
| Dissonance | Discord; opposite of harmony. Composer Charles often used dissonance-clashing or unresolved chords- for special effects. |
| Distend | Expand; swell out. I can tell when he is under stress by the way the veins distend on his forhead. |
| Divest | Strip; deprive. He was divested of his power to ac and could no longer govern. |
| Dogmatic | Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal. We tried to discourage Doug for being so dogmatic, but he will never be convinced his opinions might be wrong. |
| Ebullient | Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm. Kristen's ebullient nature could not be repressed. |
| Effrontery | Disrespectful boldness; fearless daring. The man had effrontery when he killed his parents then asked the judge for mercy because he was an orphan. |
| Elegy | Poem or song expressing lamentation(sorrow or grief). On the death of Edward King, Milton composed the elegy "Lycidas." |
| Elicit | Draw out by discussion. The detectives tried to elicit where he had hidden the loot. |
| Endemic | Prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area. This disease is endemic in this part of teh world. |
| Enervate | Weaken. She was slow to recover from her illness; even a short walk to the window enervated her. |
| Engender | Cause; produce. To receive praise for real accomplishments engenders self-confidence in a child. |
| Ephemeral | Short-lived; fleeting. The mayfly is an ephemeral creature:its adult life is little more than a day. |
| Equanimity | Calmness of temperament; composure. Even the strains of caring for an ill mothers did not disturb Bea's equanimity. |
| Equivocate | Intentionally mislead; attempt to conceal the truth. |
| Erudite | Learned; scholarly. Though his fellow students thought him erudite, Paul knew he would have to spend many years in study before he could consider himself a scholar. |
| Esoteric | Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few. 'New Yorker' short stories often include esoteric allusions to obscure people and events. |
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