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15 Cards in this Set
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digress
v |
to stray from the point; to go off on a tangent
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dilatory
adj |
causing delay; procrastinating
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din
n |
loud, sustained noise
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dirge
n |
a song of grief or lamentation
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disaffect
v |
to estrange or alienate the affection of
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discomfit
v |
to defeat; to put down
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discursive
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digressive; passing from one topic to another
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dissolution
n |
disintegration; losseness in morals
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distention
n |
the state or act of extending or bein swollen out of shape
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distrait
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distracted; absent-minded, especially due to anxiety
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doggerel
n |
trivial, poorly constructed verse
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dross
n |
slag, waste, or foreighn matter; impurity; surface scum
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dulcet
adj |
melodious; harmonious; mellifluous
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dynamo
n |
generator; forceful, energetic person
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eclectic
adj |
culled from many sources
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