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  1. daunt
    cause to lose courage
  2. decorum
    propriety in manners and conduct
  3. default
    an option that is selected automatically
  4. deference
    courteous regard for people's feelings
  5. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  6. denigrate
    attack the good name and reputation of someone
  7. deride
    treat or speak of with contempt
  8. derivative
    a compound obtained from another compound
  9. desiccate
    lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless
  10. desultory
    marked by lack of definite plan, purpose, or enthusiasm
  11. deterrent
    something immaterial that interferes with action or progress
  12. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  13. dichotomy
    a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
  14. diffidence
    lack of self-assurance
  15. diffuse
    spread out; not concentrated in one place
  16. digression
    a message that departs from the main subject
  17. dirge
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
  18. disabuse
    free somebody from an erroneous belief
  19. discerning
    having or revealing keen insight and good judgment
  20. discordant
    not in agreement or harmony
  21. discredit
    the state of being held in low esteem
  22. discrepancy
    a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
  23. discrete
    constituting a separate entity or part
  24. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  25. disinterested
    unaffected by concern for one's own welfare
  26. disjointed
    taken apart at the points of connection
  27. dismiss
    stop associating with
  28. disparage
    express a negative opinion of
  29. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
  30. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  31. disseminate
    cause to become widely known
  32. dissolution
    separation into component parts
  33. dissonance
    disagreeable sounds
  34. distend
    cause to expand as if by internal pressure
  35. distill
    undergo condensation
  36. diverge
    move or draw apart
  37. divest
    take away possessions from someone
  38. document
    a representation of a person's thinking with symbolic marks
  39. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  40. dormant
    inactive but capable of becoming active
  41. dupe
    fool or hoax
  42. ebullient
    joyously unrestrained
  43. eclectic
    selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas
  44. efficacy
    capacity or power to produce a desired result
  45. effrontery
    audacious behavior that you have no right to
  46. elegy
    a mournful poem; a lament for the dead
  47. elicit
    call forth, as an emotion, feeling, or response
  48. embellish
    make more attractive, as by adding ornament or color
  49. empirical
    derived from experiment and observation rather than theory
  50. emulate
    strive to equal or match, especially by imitating
  51. endemic
    native to or confined to a certain region
  52. enervate
    weaken physically, mentally, or morally
  53. engender
    call forth
  54. enhance
    increase
  55. ephemeral
    anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day
  56. equanimity
    steadiness of mind under stress
  57. equivocate
    be deliberately ambiguous or unclear
  58. erudite
    having or showing profound knowledge
  59. esoteric
    understandable only by an enlightened inner circle
  60. eulogy
    a formal expression of praise for someone who has died
  61. euphemism
    an inoffensive expression substituted for an offensive one
  62. exacerbate
    make worse
  63. exculpate
    pronounce not guilty of criminal charges
  64. exigency
    a pressing or urgent situation
  65. extrapolation
    an inference about the future based on known facts
Created on 八月 26, 2011

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