words 71-100
Terms
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- culpable (adj.)
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1. criminal; guilty
2. meriting condemtion or balme especially wrong or harmful
etm:from culpare - to blame
culpa - fault - Cursory
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1. not thouroughly - a quick glance at something
2. hasty - Dank
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unpleasantly moist or wet
--a dank basement-- - Decry
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1. to express a strong disapproval of
2. to condemn openly - Demagogue (N.)
- 1. a leader who makes use of popular prejustices, false claims, and emotions and promises in order to gain power
- Demur
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1. (v.) to hesitate; to delay
2. to object
--the commity wanted jerry to make a decision, but he demured until he got more information-- - Deploy
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1. to extend in (military unit)especially in width
2. to place in battle formation or appropriate posistions
etm: displicare - to scatter - Derelict
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1. a homeless or jobless person
2. a tract or land left dry by receding water
(adj.) negligent - Deride
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1. ridiculed
2. to humiliate or put down - Despicable
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1. deserving to be despised
2. so worthless or obnoxious as to rouse moral indignation - Despotism
- 1. a system of government in which the ruler has unlimited power.
- Destitute (adj.)
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1. Lacking something needed or desirable
2. suffering extreme poverty - Devoid
- Being without a usual, typical, or expected attribute or accompaniment
- Dint
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1. (n) blow, stroke, force, power
2. (v) to impress or drive in with force; to make a dent in
--general usage: "by dint of..."
(by dint of hard work.) (by dint of good luck) - Discerning
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1. Showing insight and understanging
2. Discriminating
sentance --in the darkness, it was dificult to discern whether the man had a gun, a knife, or an ice cream cone.-- - Disjointed
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1. Being thrown out of orderly function
2. Separated at or as if at a joint
3. lacking coherance or orderly function - Disparate
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1. Markedly distinct in quality or character
2. a mixed or different group (of people) - Dissolute
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1. Lacking restraint
2. Marked by indulgence in things - Distend
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1. To extend
2. to swell
3. to become expanded - Diva
- 1. a prima donna -- a woman whos extremely demanding
- Docile
- easily taught, led, or managed
- Docket
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1. a register of such records
2. a breif written summary or document - Doff
- To remove or take off
- Doggerel
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loosely styled and irregular for comic effect
--his clothes were doggerel after emerging from the back seat of Vanesas car. - Dolt
- a stupid person
- Domicile
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1. a recidence or dwelling place
` - Dotage
- a state or period of senile decay
- Doughty
- marked by fearless resolution; valiant
- earthy
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1. worldly, practical, down to earth
2. crude, gross, unsophisticated
3. plain and simple style