Satzergänzungsquiz - Wörter mit D, E
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- decorum
- The countess complained that the vulgar peasants lacked the _____ appropriate for a visit to the palace
- decries
- The founder of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, strongly _______________ the lack of financial and moral support for children in America today.
- desiccate
- A tour of this smokehouse will give you an idea of how the pioneers used to _______________ food in order to preserve it.
- demure
- She was _______________ and reserved, a nice modest girl whom any young man would be proud to take home to his mother.
- discern
- It is easy to _____ the difference between butter and butter-flavored topping
- dirge
- Melville wrote the poem "A _____ for James McPherson" for the funeral of a Union general who was killed in 1864
- dupe
- Bugs Bunny was able to _____ Elmer Fudd by dressing up as a lady rabbit
- erudite
- The annual meeting of philosophy professors was a gathering of the most _____, well-published individuals in the field
- diatribe
- The trucker bellowed a _____ at the driver who had cut him off
- discursive
- The professor's _______________ lectures seemed to be about every subject except the one initially described.
- elegy
- Although Thomas Gray's "_____ Written in a Country Churchyard" is about death and loss, it urges its readers to endure this life, and to trust in spirituality
- diffident
- Her manner is a little _______________ as yet, but she'll soon come out of her shell with the right encouragement.
- dissemble
- The villain could _____ to the police no longer--he admitted the deed and tore up the floor to reveal the body of the old man
- disabuse
- Galileo's observations _____ scholars of the notion that the Sun revolved around the Earth
- diaphanous
- Sunlight poured in through the _______________ curtains, brightening the room.
- exigent
- The patient was losing blood so rapidly that it was _____ to stop the source of bleeding
- desultory
- Diane had a _____ academic record; she had changed majors 12 times in three years
- deprecated
- A firm believer in old-fashioned courtesy, Miss Post _______________ the modern tendency to address new acquaintances by their first names.
- dilatory
- The congressman used _____ measures to delay the passage of the bill
- dithered
- Not wanting to offend either friend, he _______________ about which of the two birthday parties he should attend.