SAT Words: D
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- Daunt
- to discourage, intimidate
- Debauch
- to corrupt, seduce from virtue or duty, indulge
- Debunk
- discredit, disprove
- Debutante
- young woman making debut in a high society
- Decapitate
-
to behead
"the guillotine was used to decapitate enemies of the revolution" - Decathlon
- athletic contest with ten events
- Declivity
-
downward slope
"the village was situated on the declivity of a hill" - Decry
- to belittle, openly condemn
- Deface
-
to mar the appearance of, vandalize
"...were defaced because of the rising antagonism" - Defamatory
- slanderous, injurious to reputation
- Deferential
- respectful and polite in a submissive way
- Defile
- to dirty, spoil, to disgrace, dishonor
- Definitive
- clear-cut, explicit or decisive
- Delegate
- to give powers to another
- Deleterious
- harmful, destructive, detrimental
- Delineation
- depiction, representation
- Deluge
-
(n)flood. (v) to submerge
"the popular actor was deluged with fan mail" - Demagogue
- leader, rabble-rouser, usually appeals to emotion or prejudice
- Demean
- to degrade, humiliate, humble
- Demur
- to express doubts or objections
- Denigrate
- to slur or blacken someone's reputation
- Deplete
- to use up, exhaust
- Depose
- to remove from a high position, as from throne
- Depravity
- sinfulness, moral corruption
- Deprecate
- to belittle, disparage
- Depreciate
- to lose value gradually
- Deride
- to mock, ridicule, make fun of
- Derogate
- to belittle, disparage
- Desecrate
- to abuse something sacred
- Desiccate
- to dry completely, dehydrate
- Desist
-
to stop doing something
"to desist from doing something" - Desultory
- at random, rambling, unmethodical
- Deter
- to discourage, prevent from happening
- Determinate
- having definite limits, conclusive
- Diaphanous
- allowing light to pass through, delicate
- Diatribe
- bitter verbal attack
- Dichotomy
- division into two parts
- Dictum
- authoritative statement, popular saying
- Didactic
- excessively instructive
- Dilatory
- slow, tending to delay
- Diluvial
- relating to flood
- Dirge
- funeral hymn
- Disaffected
- discontented and disloyal
- Disarray
-
clutter, disorder
"the house fell into a disarray after the party" - Disbar
-
to expel from legal profession
"the lawyer was disbarred after he was accused of bribing" - Disburse
- to pay out
- Discordant
-
harsh sounding, badly out of tune
"the violin did not sound completely discordant, but there was..." - Discrepancy
-
difference between
"the discrepancy between the kid's appearance and the photo on the id was so obvious..." - Discretionary
-
subject to one's own judgment
"if they had any discretionary powers, they would ruin everything with their own whimsical decisions, therefore they must bow down to authority." - Discursive
- wandering from topic to topic
- Disengaged
- disconnected, dissociated
- Disgorge
- to vomit, discharge violently
- Disparate
- dissimilar, different in kind
- Disparity
- contrast, dissimilarity
- Dispassionate
- free from emotion, impartial, unbiased
- Dispel
- to drive out or scatter
- Dispense with
- to suspend operation of, do without
- Dispirit
- to dishearten, make dejected
- Dissemble
-
to pretend, disguise one's motives
"I can dissemble to you no longer!" - Disseminate
- to spread far and wide
- Dissension
-
difference of opinion
"her continued dissension of their ideas made it impossible for them to.." - Dissipate
- to scatter, to pursue pleasures to excess
- Dissuade
- to persuade someone to alter original intentions
- Distend
- to swell, inflate, bloat
- Distraught
- worried and distressed
- Dither
- to move or act confusedly or without a clear purpose
- diurnal
- daily
- Divisive
- creating disunity or conflict
- Doctrinaire
- rigidly devoted to theories
- Dogmatic
- rigidly fixed in opinion
- Dolt
- idiot, dimwit, foolish person
- Domineer, Donor, Dormant
-
to domineer over someone
... - Dotard
- senile old person
- Dour
- sullen and gloomy, stern and severe
- Draft
- plan, outline, to recruit, conscript
- Drivel
- stupid talk, slobber
- Droll
- amusing in a wry, subtle way
- Dross
- waster produced during metal smelting, garbage
- Dulcet
- pleasant sounding
- Dupe
- to deceive
- Duplicity
- deception, dishonesty
- Duress
-
threat of force or intimidation, imprisonment
"she was not so bold under duress after all" - Dyspeptic
- suffering from indigestion, gloomy and irritable