SAT Vocab: Units 10-11
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- diminution
- the act or process of diminishing; a lessening or reduction
- discerning
- exhibiting keen insight and good judgment; perceptive
- disdain
- a feeling or show of contempt and aloofness; scorn
- dismantle
- to take apart; disassemble; tear down
- disparage
- to speak of in a slighting or disrespectful way; belittle
- disparity
- the condition or fact of being unequal, as in a ge, rank, or degree; difference
- disperse
- to drive off or scatter in different directions
- disposition
- one's usual mood; temperament
- dissipated
- to drive away; disperse
- distraught
- deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict
- dogmatic
- characterized by an arrogant assertion of unproved principles
- dormant
- lying asleep or as if asleep; inactive
- duplicity
- deliberate deceptiveness in behavior or speech
- ebb
- to fall away or back; decline or recede
- eclectic
- selecting or employing individual elements from a variety of sources, systems, or styles
- efface
- to rub or wipe out; erase
- effervescent
- to emit small bubbles of gas, as a carbonated or fermenting liquid
- egregious
- conspicuously bad or offensive
- elucidate
- to make clear or plain, especially by explanation; clarify
- elusive
- tending to elude capture, perception, comprehension, or memory