C-D-4
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- distinction n
- A note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies
- distort v
- To twist into an unnatural or irregular form
- distrain v
- To subject a person to distress
- distrainor n
- One who subjects a person to distress
- distraught adj
- Bewildered
- distrust n
- Lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person
- disunion n
- Separation of relations or interests
- diurnal adj
- Daily
- divagation n
- Digression
- divergent adj
- Tending in different directions
- diverse adj
- Capable of various forms
- diversion n
- Pastime
- diversity n
- Dissimilitude
- divert v
- To turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established
- divertible adj
- Able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established
- divest v
- To strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments, or accouterments or disinvestment
- divination n
- The pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden
- divinity n
- The quality or character of being godlike
- divisible adj
- Capable of being separated into parts
- divisor n
- That by which a number or quantity is divided
- divulge v
- To tell or make known, as something previously private or secret
- divulgence n
- A divulging
- docile adj
- Easy to manage
- docket n
- The registry of judgments of a court
- doe n
- The female of the deer
- dogma n
- A statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority
- dogmatic adj
- Making statements without argument or evidence
- dogmatize v
- To make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence
- doleful adj
- Melancholy
- dolesome adj
- Melancholy
- dolor n
- Lamentation
- dolorous adj
- Expressing or causing sorrow or pain
- domain n
- A sphere or field of action or interest
- domesticity n
- Life in or fondness for one's home and family
- domicile n
- The place where one lives
- dominance n
- Ascendancy
- dominant adj
- Conspicuously prominent
- dominate v
- To influence controllingly
- domination n
- Control by the exercise of power or constituted authority
- domineer v
- To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance
- donate v
- To bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause
- donator n
- One who makes a donation or present
- donee n
- A person to whom a donation is made
- donor n
- One who makes a donation or present
- dormant adj
- Being in a state of or resembling sleep
- doublet n
- One of a pair of like things
- doubly adv
- In twofold degree or extent
- dowry n
- The property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage
- drachma n
- A modern and an ancient Greek coin
- dragnet n
- A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water
- dragoon n
- In the British army, a cavalryman
- drainage n
- The means of draining collectively, as a system of conduits, trenches, pipes, etc
- dramatist n
- One who writes plays
- dramatize v
- To relate or represent in a dramatic or theatrical manner
- drastic adj
- Acting vigorously
- drought n
- Dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither
- drowsy adj
- Heavy with sleepiness
- drudgery n
- Hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation
- dubious adj
- Doubtful
- duckling n
- A young duck
- ductile adj
- Capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread
- duet n
- A composition for two voices or instruments
- dun v
- To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment
- duplex adj
- Having two parts
- duplicity n
- Double-dealing
- durance n
- Confinement
- duration n
- The period of time during which anything lasts
- duteous adj
- Showing submission to natural superiors
- dutiable adj
- Subject to a duty, especially a customs duty
- dutiful adj
- Obedient
- dwindle v
- To diminish or become less
- dyne n
- The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s