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Hailey Vocabulary 12
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Diligent | (adj.) characterized by steady, earnest, and energetic effort |
| Disconcert | (verb) to throw into confusion |
| Disconsolate | (adj.) cheerless |
| Disdain | (noun) a feeling of contempt for someone or something regarded as unworthy or inferior |
| Disparage | (verb) to lower in rank or reputation |
| Disseminate | (verb) to disperse throughout |
| Disparity | (adj.) containing or made up of fundamentally different and often incongruous elements |
| Dissident | (adj.) disagreeing especially with an established religious or political system, organization, or belief |
| Divest | (verb) to deprive or dispossess especially of property, authority, or title |
| Docile | (adj.) easily led or managed |
| Doggerel | (adj.) loosely styled and irregular in measure especially for burlesque or comic effect |
| Dogmatic | (adj.) characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts |
| Dolorous | (adj.) causing, marked by, or expressing misery or grief |
| Dolt | (noun) a stupid person |
| Dormant | (adj.) marked by a suspension of activity |