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Word List 6
ELA Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Deliberate | Carefully thought out and formed; Done on purpose |
| Deliberation | The act of deliberating |
| Delight | Joy, something that gives great pleasure; To take great pleasure |
| Delimit | To fix the limits of |
| Delineate | To sketch out; Draw; Describe |
| Delude | To mislead; Deceive; Trick |
| Deluge | A great flood; Heavy Rainfall |
| Demagnetize | To deprive of magnetic properties |
| Demean | To degrade; Humble |
| Demobilize | To discharge from military service |
| Demolish | To destroy; Ruin; To break to pieces |
| Demonstrate | To prove or make clear by reasoning or evidence. To make a demonstration |
| Demotic | Of or pertaining to the people |
| Demur | To object |
| Demystify | To make something less mysterious |
| Denigrate | To disparage the character or reputation of; Defame; Blacken |
| Denote | To mark, indicate; Signify |
| Denounce | To accuse publicly |
| Dense | Marked by compactness or crowding together of parts |
| Density | The quality or state of being dense |
| Dental | Of or relating to the teeth or dentistry |
| Dependable | Capable of being depended on |
| Depict | To represent by or as if by a picture; To describe |
| Deplete | To exhaust |
| Deplore | To express or feel brief for; To condemn |
| Deploy | To place in battle formation or appropriate positions; To extend a military unit especially in width |
| Deprave | To make bad |
| Deprecate | To express disapproval of; To belittle |
| Deprecation | Disapproval |
| Deprecation | Disapproving |
| Depreciate | To make seem less important; Belittle; Disparage; Reduce or drop in value or price |
| Deprive | To take something away from |
| Derelict | Deserted by the owner; Abandoned; Neglectful of duty; Remiss; Negligent; Somebody abandoned by family and society |
| Deride | To laugh at in contempt or scorn; Ridicule |
| Derivative | Derived; Not original |
| Derogatory | Disparaging; Belittling |
| Descend | To pass from a higher place or level to a lower one; To lower oneself in status or dignity |
| Descriptive | Serving to describe |
| Descry | To catch sight of; Discern |
| Desecrate | To treat as not sacred; Profane |
| Designate | To indicate and set apart for a specific purpose, office, or duty; Appointed to a job but not yet having officially started it |
| Desirable | Advisable; Worthwhile; Beneficial |
| Despicable | Deserving to be despised; Contemptible |
| Despondent | Disheartened; Depressed; Hopeless |
| Destine | To decree beforehand |
| Desultory | Disconnected; Not methodical; Random |
| Detect | To discover the true character of; To discover or determine the existence |
| Detection | The act of detecting |
| Deter | To discourage; To inhibit |
| Deteriorate | To make inferior in quality or value |
| Determinant | Something that determines or decides how something happens; Decisive |
| Deterrrent | Serving to deter |
| Detest | To dislike intensely; Hate; Abhor |
| Detour | A roundabout way; A route used when the direct or regular route is not available |
| Detriment | Injury, damage |
| Detrimental | Causing detriment; Harmful |
| Devastate | To ravage; Destroy |
| Deviant | Deviating especially from an accepted norm |
| Deviation | Noticeable or marked departure from accepted norms of behavior |
| Devious | Not straightforward or frank; Roundabout; Winding |
| Devoid | Empty or destitute of |
| Devour | To eat or eat up hungrily; To enjoy avidly |
| Devout | Seriously concerned with religion; Totally committed to a cause or a belief |
| Dexterous | Adroit; Handy |
| Diagnostic | Of, relating to, or used in diagnosis; The art or practice of diagnosis |
| Dialect | A from of a language used in a part of a country |
| Dichotomy | Bifurcation; Something with seemingly contradictory qualities |
| Dictate | To speak or read aloud for somebody else to write down; To prescribe or command forcefully |
| Didactic | Morally instructive; Boringly pedantic or moralistic |
| Die | A block of hard metal with a design, etc. cut into it; To perish |
| Diehard | A fanatically determined person |
| Dietary | Of or relating to a diet or to the rules of a diet |
| Diffident | Not showing much belief in one's own abilities |
| Diffusion | Diffuseness; Prolixity; reflection of light by a rough reflecting surface; Transmission of light through a translucent material; Scattering |
| Digressive | Characterized by digressions |
| Delapidated | Broken down; Shabby and neglected |
| Dilate | To swell; Expand |
| Delatory | Inclined to delay; Slow or late in doing things |
| Dilettante | Dabbler; Amateur |
| Diligent | Characterized by steady, earnest, and energetic effort |
| Dilute | To thin down or weaken by mixing with water or other liquid |
| Diminish | To make less or cause to appear less, belittle, dwindle |
| Diminution | A case or the state of diminishing or being diminished |
| Diplomatic | Tactful and adroit; Suave |
| Disabuse | To rid of false ideas; Undeceive |
| Disarm | To take weapons away from somebody; To make somebody less angry, hostile, etc. |
| Disarray | An untidy condition; Disorder; Confusion |
| Disavowal | Repudiation |
| Discernible | Being recognized or identified |
| Discharge | To emit; To officially allow somebody to leave; To dismiss from employment; To carry out duty; to release electrical energy |
| Disciple | A convinced adherent of a school or individual |
| Discipline | A rule or system of rules governing conduct or activity; Punishment; To train or develop by instruction and exercise especially in self-control |
| Discomfit | To make uneasy; Disconcert; Embarrass |
| Discomfited | Frustrated; Embarrassed |
| Discomfort | To make uncomfortable or uneasy; Mental or physical uneasiness |
| Disconsolate | Cheerless, Dejected, Downcast |
| Discontent | Lack of contentment; To make discontented; Discontented |
| Discount | Amount of money taken off the cost of something |
| Discourage | To deprive of courage or confidence; To dissuade or attempt to dissuade from doing something |
| Discouraging | Making somebody lose the confidence or determination |
| Dicourse | A long and formal treatment of a subject, in speech or writing; Dissertation |
| Discourteous | Lacking courtesy |
| Descredit | To reject as untrue; disbelieve; Disgrace; Dishonor |
| Discrete | Individual; Separate; Made up of distinct parts; Discontinuous |
| Discretion | The quality of behaving or speaking in such a way as to avoid causing offense or revealing private information; The freedom to decide what should be done in a particular situation |
| Discriminatory | Showing prejudice |
| Discursive | Rambling or wandering from topic to topic |
| Disdain | To refuse or reject with aloof contempt or scorn; Contempt |
| Disenfranchise | To deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| Disgruntled | Annoyed or disappointed |
| Disillusion | To cause to lose naive faith and trust |
| Disinclination | A preference for avoiding something |
| Disingenuous | Lacking in candor |
| Disinterest | To cause to regard something with no interest or concern; Lack of interest |
| Disinterested | Impartial; Unbiased |
| Disjunctive | Showing opposition or contrast between two ideas |
| Dismal | Showing sadness |
| Dismemeber | To cut off or disjoin the limbs, members, or parts of; To break up or tear into pieces |
| Dismiss | To permit or cause to leave; To remove from position or service |
| Disorganize | To destroy or interrupt the orderly structure or function of |
| Disparage | To speak slightingly of; Depreciate; Decry |
| Disparate | Essentially not alike; Distinct or different in kind |
| Dispassionate | Free from passion, emotion, or bias |
| Dispel | To scatter and drive away; Disperse |
| Dispensible | Capable of being dispensed with |
| Disperse | To spread or distribute from a fixed or constant source |
| Disposable | Made to be thrown away after use; Available for use |
| Disproportionate | Being out of proportion |
| Disprove | To show that something is wrong |
| Disputable | Not definitely true of right; Arguable |
| Dispute | To argue about; Debate |
| Disrupt | To cause disorder in something; To break apart |
| Dissect | To cut up a dead body; To analyze and interpret minutely |
| Disseminate | To spread abroad; Promulgate widely |
| Dissent | Difference in opinion; To differ in belief or opinion; Disagree |
| Dissident | A person who disagrees; Dissenter |
| Dissipate | To break up and scatter or vanish; To waste or squander |
| Dissolve | To make a solid become liquid |
| Dissonant | Opposing in opinion, Temperament; Discordant |
| Distant | Reserved or aloof in personal relationship |
| Distasteful | Unpleasant; Disagreeable |
| Distent | Swollen; Expanded |
| Distinct | Definite; Evident |
| Distinguish | to mark as separate or different; To separate Into kinds, classes, or categories; To discern |
| Distort | To twist something out of its usual shape |
| Distortion | The act of distorting; A statement that twists fact; Misrepresentation |
| Distraught | Mentally confused; Distressed |
Created by:
shanshi000
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