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English Vocab 12cshs
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Diligent | adj characterized by steady, earnest, and energetic effort |
| Disconcert | verb to thrown 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 desperse 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 loosley 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 |