Kaplan's SAT Vocab (D)
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- dearth
- n. a lack, scarcity, insufficiency
- debacle
- n. a sudden, disastrous collapse or defeat; a total, ridiculous failure
- declaim
- v. to speak loudly and vehemently
- defamatory
- adj. injurious to the reputation
- demagogue
- n. a leader or rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice
- denizen
- n. an inhabitant, a resident
- deride
- v. to laugh at contemptuously, to make fun of
- diffuse
- v. to spread out widely, to scatter freely, to disseminate
- digress
- v. to turn aside, especially from the main point; to stray from the subject
- dilapidated
- adj. in disrepair; run down
- diluvial
- adj. pertaining to a flood
- discomfit
- v. to disconcert, to make one lose one's composure
- discrete
- adj. individually distinct, separate
- disingenuous
- adj. giving a false appearance of simple frankness; misleading
- disinterested
- adj. fair-minded, unbiased
- dispassionate
- adj. unaffected by bias or strong emotion; not personally or emotionally involved in anything
- dissident
- adj. disagreeing with an established religious or political system
- doctrinaire
- adj. rigidly devoted to theories without regard for practicality; dogmatic
- dogged
- adj. stubbornly persevering
- doleful
- adj. sad, mournful
- dour
- adj. sullen and gloomy; stern and severe