SAT Hot Prospects & High Frequency Vocab 6
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| deference | n. courteous regard for another's wish | In deference to the minister's request, please do not take photgraphs during the wedding service.
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| degradation | n. humiliation; debasement; degeneration | Some secretaries object to fetching the boss a cup of coffee because they resent the degradation of being made to do such lowly tasks.
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| dehydrate | v. remove water from; dry out | Running under a hot sun quickly dehydrates the body; joggers soon learn to carry water bottles and to drink from them frequently.
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| deleterious | adj. harmful | If you believe that smoking is deleterious to your health (and the Surgeon General certainly does), then quit!
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| delineate | v. portray; depict; sketch | Using only a few descriptive phrases, Austen delineates the character of Mr. Collins so well that we can predict his every move.
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| denounce | v. condemn; criticize | The reform candidate denounced the corrupt city officers for having betrayed the public's trust.
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| deplore | v. regret; disapprove of | Although I deplore the vulgarity of your language, I defend your right to express yourself freely.
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| depose | v. dethrone; remove from office | The army attempted to depose the king and set up a military government.
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| depravity | n. extreme corruption; wickedness | The depravity of Caligula's behaviour came to sicken even those who had willingly participated in his earlier, comparatively innocent orgies.
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| deprecate | v. express disapproval of; protest against; belittle | A firm believer in old-fashioned courtesy, Miss Post deprecated the modern tendency to address new acquaintances by their first names.
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| deride | v. ridicule; make fun of | The critics derided his pretentious dialogue and refused to consider his play seriously.
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| derivative | adj. unoriginal; derived from another source | Although her early poetry was clearly derivative in nature, the critics thought she had promise and eventually would find her own voice.
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| desiccate | v. dry up | A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to desiccate food in order to preserve it.
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| despondent | adj. depressed; gloomy | To thje dismay of his parents, William became seriously despondent after he broke up with Jan; they despaired of finding a cure for his gloom.
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| detached. | adj. emotionally removed; calm and objective; physically unconnected. | A psychoanalyst must maintain a detached point of view and stay uninvolved with his or her patients' personal lives. To a child growing up in an apartment or row house, to live in a detached house was an unattainable dream.
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| deterrent | n. something that discourages; hindrance | Does the threat of capital punishment serve as a deterrent to potential killers?
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| detrimental | adj. harmful; damaging | The candidate's acceptance of major financial contributions from a well-known racist ultimately proved detrimental to his campaign, for he lost the backing of many of his early grassroots supporters.
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| devious | adj. roundabout; erratic; not straightforward (usually in a sneaky or dastardly way) | The Joker's plan was so devious that it was only with great difficult we could follow its shifts and dodges.
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| devise | v. think up; invent; plan | How clever he must be to have devised such a devious plan! What ingenious inventions might he have devised if he had turned his mind to science and not to crime.
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| diffidence | n. shyness | You must overcome your diffidence if you intend to become a salesperson.
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| diffuse | adj. wordy; rambling; spread out (like a gas) | If you pay authors by the word, you tempt them to produce diffuse manuscripts ranther than brief ones.
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| digression | n. wandering away from the subject | Nobody minded when Professor Renoir's lectures wandered away from their official theme; his digressions were almost always more fascinating than the topic of the day.
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| dilatory | adj. delaying | If you are dilatory in paying bills, your credit rating may suffer.
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| diligence | n. steadiness of effort; persistent hard work | Her employers were greatly impressed by her diligence and offered her a partnership in the firm.
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| decorum | n. propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners | Even the best-mannered students have trouble behaving with decorum on the last day of school.
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