Barron's Word List 15: dishearten-duplicity

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  1. dishearten
    take away the enthusiasm of
  2. disheveled
    in disarray; extremely disorderly
  3. dishonor
    a state of shame or disgrace
  4. disinclination
    a certain degree of unwillingness
  5. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  6. disinter
    dig up for reburial or for medical investigation
  7. disinterested
    unaffected by concern for one's own welfare
  8. disjointed
    taken apart at the points of connection
  9. disjunction
    state of being disconnected
  10. dislodge
    remove or force from a position previously occupied
  11. dismantle
    take off or remove
  12. dismember
    separate the limbs from the body
  13. dismiss
    stop associating with
  14. disparage
    express a negative opinion of
  15. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
  16. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
  17. dispassionate
    unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice
  18. dispatch
    the act of sending off something
  19. dispel
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  20. dispense
    administer or bestow, as in small portions
  21. disperse
    move away from each other
  22. dispirited
    showing no enthusiasm
  23. disport
    occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion
  24. disproportion
    imbalance among the parts of something
  25. disputatious
    showing an inclination to disagree
  26. disquietude
    feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
  27. disquisition
    an elaborate analytical or explanatory essay or discussion
  28. dissection
    the act of cutting so as to separate into pieces
  29. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  30. disseminate
    cause to become widely known
  31. dissension
    disagreement among those expected to cooperate
  32. dissent
    a difference of opinion
  33. dissertation
    a treatise advancing a point of view resulting from research
  34. dissident
    a person who objects to some established policy
  35. dissimulate
    hide feelings from other people
  36. dissipate
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  37. dissolute
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  38. dissolution
    separation into component parts
  39. dissonance
    disagreeable sounds
  40. dissuade
    turn away from by persuasion
  41. distant
    separated in space or coming from far away
  42. distend
    cause to expand as if by internal pressure
  43. distill
    undergo condensation
  44. distinct
    constituting a separate entity or part
  45. distinction
    a discrimination between things as different
  46. distinctive
    of a feature that helps to identify a person or thing
  47. distort
    twist and press out of shape
  48. distract
    draw someone's attention away from something
  49. distrait
    having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
  50. distraught
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
  51. diurnal
    having a daily cycle or occurring every day
  52. diva
    a distinguished female operatic singer
  53. diverge
    move or draw apart
  54. divergent
    tending to move apart in different directions
  55. diverse
    distinctly dissimilar or unlike
  56. diversion
    a turning aside
  57. diversity
    noticeable variety
  58. divest
    take away possessions from someone
  59. divine
    a clergyman or other person in religious orders
  60. divulge
    make known to the public information previously kept secret
  61. docile
    easily handled or managed
  62. docket
    a temporally organized plan for matters to be attended to
  63. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  64. doctrine
    a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  65. document
    a representation of a person's thinking with symbolic marks
  66. doddering
    mentally or physically infirm with age
  67. doff
    remove
  68. dogged
    stubbornly unyielding
  69. doggerel
    a comic verse of irregular measure
  70. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  71. doldrums
    a state of inactivity
  72. dolorous
    showing sorrow
  73. dolt
    a person who is not very bright
  74. domicile
    housing that someone is living in
  75. dominant
    most frequent or common
  76. dominate
    be in control
  77. domineer
    rule or exercise power over in a cruel and autocratic manner
  78. don
    a teacher or tutor, especially at Cambridge or Oxford
  79. doom
    an unpleasant or disastrous destiny
  80. dormant
    inactive but capable of becoming active
  81. dormer
    a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof
  82. dorsal
    on or near the back of an animal or organ
  83. dossier
    papers containing detailed information about a person
  84. dotage
    mental infirmity as a consequence of old age
  85. dote
    shower with love; show excessive affection for
  86. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  87. douse
    wet thoroughly
  88. dowdy
    lacking in stylishness or taste
  89. downcast
    filled with melancholy and despondency
  90. dowry
    money brought by a woman to her husband at marriage
  91. dowse
    use a divining rod in search of underground water or metal
  92. doze
    a light fitful sleep
  93. drab
    a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
  94. Draconian
    imposing a harsh code of laws
  95. draft
    a current of air
  96. drama
    a work intended for performance by actors on a stage
  97. drastic
    forceful and extreme and rigorous
  98. draught
    a serving of drink (usually alcoholic) drawn from a keg
  99. draw
    cause to move by pulling
  100. dregs
    sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid
  101. dribble
    flowing in drops
  102. drip
    flowing in drops
  103. drivel
    saliva spilling from the mouth
  104. droll
    comical in an odd or whimsical manner
  105. drone
    make a monotonous low dull sound
  106. droop
    sink or settle from pressure or loss of tautness
  107. dross
    worthless or dangerous material that should be removed
  108. drudge
    a laborer who is obliged to do menial work
  109. drudgery
    hard, monotonous, routine work
  110. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  111. ductile
    capable of being shaped or bent or drawn out
  112. dulcet
    pleasing to the ear
  113. dull
    so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
  114. dumbfound
    be a mystery or bewildering to
  115. dummy
    a figure representing the human form
  116. dupe
    fool or hoax
  117. duplicity
    the act of deceiving or acting in bad faith
Created on 二月 10, 2012 (updated 八月 3, 2012)

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