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43 Cards in this Set
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Dilatory |
Slow, late; procrastinating or stalling for time |
Dean was a delatory person, he only once arrived on time to the weekly meeting |
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Dilettant |
Person who takes up an art or activity for amusement only |
The arts center in the rich neighborhood was populated by dilettantes |
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Dirge |
A funeral or morning song or poem |
His song sounded more like a dirge than a wedding march |
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Discomfiting |
Disconcerting, confusing, frustrating |
He found their odd behavior towards his black fiancee discomfiting |
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Discordant |
Harsh or inharmonious in sound; disagreeing, incongruous |
During the hopeful graduation ceremony, the speaker's address about the terrible economy struck a discordant note. |
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Discrete |
Separate, distinct, detached |
"Discrete mathmatics" |
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Disparage |
Belittle, put down; bring shame upon, discredit |
Your shoplifting has disparaged this family! |
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Disparate |
Distinct, different |
He chose the college for two disparate reasons. |
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Dissemble |
Mislead, conceal the truth, put on a false appearance of |
Rosie was used to dissembling in job interviews |
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Dissolution |
Dissolving, the state of having been dissolved; breaking bonds or breaking up a group of people |
Following the dissolution of the corporation... |
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Distaff |
Female; women or women's work; a staff that holds wool or flax for spinning |
Breast cancer occurs on the distaff part of my family |
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Distend |
Swell, extend, stretch, bloat |
People came into the emergency room with distended bellies |
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Dither |
Act indecisively; a state of fear or excitement |
The haunted house brought the children to a dither |
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Diurnal |
Occuring during the day |
Humans are diurnal, while cats are nocturnal |
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Doctrinaire |
Person who applies doctrine in an impractical or rigid and closed minded way; merely theoretical, impractical, or fanatical about other people accepting ones ideas |
Dceu fans' doctrinaire attitude drives off other people who might have been fans |
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Doff |
Take off, put aside; remove ones hat as a gesture |
It is polite to doff ones hat when a lady enters the room |
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Dovetail |
Join or fit together |
The two found that their careers dovetailed |
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Droll |
Funny in an odd way |
Napoleon Dynamite was a droll production |
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Duplicity |
Deceit, double-dealing, acting in two different ways for the purpose of deception |
The liberal politician's duplicity came to light when it was revealed that he was taking money from the NRA |
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Dyspeptic |
Grumpy, pessimistic, irritable; suffering from indigestion |
The dyspeptic professor was so mad that nobody passed his quiz, he stomped out of the class |
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Ebullient |
Very enthusiastic, lively, excited; bubbling as though being boiled |
The children were ebullient upon their arrival at Disneyland |
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Echelon |
A level, rank or grade; people at that level |
The upper echelon of executives |
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Edify |
Uplift, enlighten, instruct or improve in a spiritual or moral way |
I wish you would read something more edifying than manga |
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Effigy |
Representation or image of a person |
We will burn a trump effigy |
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Effrontery |
Shameless boldness |
The worst effrontery was when he asked his acquaintance for $10,000 |
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Egress |
An exit or the action of exiting |
You are not allowed to block the primary egress of a building |
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Elegy |
Song or poem of sorrow esp. for a deceased person |
The elegy was a fitting way for the poet to say goodbye to her dead Father |
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Emaciate |
Make abnormally thin, cause to physically waste away |
After 50 days on a raft, the sailor was emaciated |
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Encomium |
Warm, glowing praise |
After all the encomium at his retirement party, he received a gold watch |
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Endemic |
Native, local; natural, specific to, or confined to a particular place |
Certain diseases are endemic to southeast asia |
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Engender |
Produce, give rise to; procreate |
Trumps speeches we're criticized for engendering hate |
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Epicure |
Person with cultivated, refined tastes |
A true epicure, he only served the finest wines |
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Equanimity |
Composure; mental or emotional stability, esp. under stress |
After working in hospitals for many years, her equanimity was unparalleled |
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Equivocate |
Use unclear language to deceive or avoid committing to a position |
Not wanting to lose supporters, the politician equivocated on the issue |
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Ersatz |
Artificial, synthetic; being inferior substitute |
"The ersatz elevator." I do not want to eat ersatz meatballs, made out of soy |
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Erstwhile |
Former, previous; in the past, formerly |
A novelist and erstwhile insurance salesman |
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Ethos |
The moral values specific to a person, group, time period , etc |
The man happily settled into an ethos of hard work |
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Euphony |
Pleasing or sweet sound |
Translated poetry keeps its meaning, but loses the euphony the poet created |
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Exigent |
Requiring immediate attention; excessively demanding |
She would mentor me, but it always gets forgotten in lieu of more exigent matters |
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Expedient |
Suitable, proper; effective, often at the expense of ethics or other considerations |
I expect you to deal with it expediently |
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Expurgate |
Censor; remove objectionable or offensive parts |
They read an expurgated version of huckleberry Finn |
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Extemporaneous |
Done without preparation; improvised |
He spoke extemporaneously at the wedding, but ended up saying "um" too many times |
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Fallow |
Left unplanted; not in use |
The fields like fallow |
