SAT words from 'demonstrator' to 'desistance'
Words alphabetically from 'demonstrator' to 'desistance' from the monster 5000-word at http://www.freevocabulary.com/
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- demonstrator
- One who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner.
- demulcent
- Any application soothing to an irritable surface
- demurrage
- the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
- dendroid
- Like a tree.
- dendrology
- The natural history of trees.
- denizen
- Inhabitant.
- denominate
- To give a name or epithet to.
- denomination
- A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.
- denominator
- Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.
- denote
- To designate by word or mark.
- denouement
- That part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up.
- denounce
- To point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium.
- dentifrice
- Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
- denude
- To strip the covering from.
- denunciation
- The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
- deplete
- To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste.
- deplorable
- Contemptible.
- deplore
- To regard with grief or sorrow.
- deponent
- Laying down.
- depopulate
- To remove the inhabitants from.
- deport
- To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
- deportment
- Demeanor.
- deposition
- Testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court.
- depositor
- One who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited.
- depository
- A place where anything is kept in safety.
- deprave
- To render bad, especially morally bad.
- deprecate
- To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
- depreciate
- To lessen the worth of.
- depreciation
- A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
- depress
- To press down.
- depression
- A falling of the spirits.
- depth
- Deepness.
- derelict
- Neglectful of obligation.
- deride
- To ridicule.
- derisible
- Open to ridicule.
- derision
- Ridicule.
- derivation
- That process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning.
- derivative
- Coming or acquired from some origin.
- derive
- To deduce, as from a premise.
- dermatology
- The branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases.
- derrick
- An apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights.
- descendant
- One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc.
- descendent
- Proceeding downward.
- descent
- The act of moving or going downward.
- descry
- To discern.
- desert
- To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
- desiccant
- Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
- designate
- To select or appoint, as by authority.
- desist
- To cease from action.
- desistance
- Cessation.