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| 1 | deplete | (verb) use up (resources or materials); "this car consumes a lot of gas"; "We exhausted our savings"; "They run through 20 bottles of wine a week"
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| 2 | deplore | (verb) express strong disapproval of; "We deplore the government's treatment of political prisoners" (verb) regret strongly; "I deplore this hostile action"; "we lamented the loss of benefits"
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| 3 | deposition | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office (noun) the act of putting something somewhere (noun) (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually done in a lawyer's office (noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something
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| 4 | deprave | (verb) corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality; "debauch the young people with wine and women"; "Socrates was accused of corrupting young men"; "Do school counselors subvert young children?"; "corrupt the morals"
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| 5 | deprecate | (verb) belittle; "The teacher should not deprecate his student's efforts" (verb) express strong disapproval of; deplore
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| 6 | dereliction | (noun) willful negligence (noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring; "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"
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| 7 | derision | (noun) the act of deriding or treating with contempt (noun) contemptuous laughter
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| 8 | derivative | (noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx (noun) (linguistics) a word that is derived from another word; "`electricity' is a derivative of `electric'" (noun) a financial instrument whose value is based on another security (adjective satellite) resulting from or employing derivation; "a derivative process"; "a highly derivative prose style"
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| 9 | derogatory | (adjective satellite) expressive of low opinion; "derogatory comments"; "disparaging remarks about the new house"
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| 10 | descry | (verb) catch sight of
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| 11 | desiccant | (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture)
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| 12 | desiccate | (verb) lose water or moisture; "In the desert, you get dehydrated very quickly" (verb) remove water from; "All this exercise and sweating has dehydrated me" (verb) preserve by removing all water and liquids from; "carry dehydrated food on your camping trip" (adjective satellite) lacking vitality or spirit; lifeless; "a technically perfect but arid performance of the sonata"; "a desiccate romance"; "a prissy and emotionless creature...settles into a mold of desiccated snobbery"-C.J.Rolo
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| 13 | desuetude | (noun) a state of inactivity or disuse
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| 14 | desultory | (adjective satellite) marked by lack of definite plan or regularity or purpose; jumping from one thing to another; "desultory thoughts"; "the desultory conversation characteristic of cocktail parties"
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| 15 | detach | (verb) cause to become detached or separated; take off; "detach the skin from the chicken before you eat it" (verb) come to be detached; "His retina detached and he had to be rushed into surgery" (verb) military use: separate (a small unit) from a larger, especially for a special assignment; "detach a regiment"
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| 16 | deter | (verb) turn away from by persuasion; "Negative campaigning will only dissuade people" (verb) try to prevent; show opposition to; "We should discourage this practice among our youth"
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| 17 | deterrent | (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress (adjective satellite) tending to deter; "the deterrent effects of high prices"
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| 18 | detraction | (noun) the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander); "let it be no detraction from his merits to say he is plainspoken" (noun) a petty disparagement
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| 19 | deviance | (noun) deviate behavior (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm
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| 20 | dexterity | (noun) adroitness in using the hands
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| 21 | dexterous | (adjective satellite) skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands; "a deft waiter"; "deft fingers massaged her face"; "dexterous of hand and inventive of mind"
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| 22 | diaphanous | (adjective satellite) so thin as to transmit light; "a hat with a diaphanous veil"; "filmy wings of a moth"; "gauzy clouds of dandelion down"; "gossamer cobwebs"; "sheer silk stockings"; "transparent chiffon"; "vaporous silks"
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| 23 | diatribe | (noun) thunderous verbal attack
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| 24 | dictate | (noun) a guiding principle; "the dictates of reason" (noun) an authoritative rule (verb) say out loud for the purpose of recording; "He dictated a report to his secretary" (verb) issue commands or orders for (verb) rule as a dictator
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| 25 | diffidence | (noun) lack of self-confidence
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| 26 | diffident | (adjective satellite) lacking self-confidence; "stood in the doorway diffident and abashed"; "problems that call for bold not timid responses"; "a very unsure young man" (adjective satellite) showing modest reserve; "she was diffident when offering a comment on the professor's lecture"
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| 27 | dilate | (verb) become wider; "His pupils were dilated" (verb) add details, as to an account or idea; clarify the meaning of and discourse in a learned way, usually in writing; "She elaborated on the main ideas in her dissertation"
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| 28 | dilatory | (adjective satellite) using cautious slow strategy to wear down opposition; avoiding direct confrontation; "a fabian policy" (adjective satellite) wasting time (adjective satellite) inclined to waste time and lag behind
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| 29 | disabuse | (verb) free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
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| 30 | disallow | (verb) command against; "I forbid you to call me late at night"; "Mother vetoed the trip to the chocolate store"
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| 31 | discern | (verb) detect with the senses; "The fleeing convicts were picked out of the darkness by the watchful prison guards"; "I can't make out the faces in this photograph"
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| 32 | discomfit | (verb) cause to lose one's composure
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| 33 | discomfit | (verb) cause to lose one's composure
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| 34 | disconcert | (verb) cause to lose one's composure (verb) cause to feel embarrassment; "The constant attention of the young man confused her"
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| 35 | discordant | (adjective) not in agreement or harmony; "views discordant with present-day ideas" (adjective satellite) lacking in harmony
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| 36 | discountenance | (verb) show disapproval by discouraging; "any measure tending to fuse invalids into a class with special privileges should be discountenanced" (verb) look with disfavor on; "The republic soon discountenanced its few friends"
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| 37 | discourse | (noun) extended verbal expression in speech or writing (noun) an extended communication (often interactive) dealing with some particular topic; "the book contains an excellent discussion of modal logic"; "his treatment of the race question is badly biased" (noun) an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) (verb) talk or hold forth formally about a topic; "The speaker dissertated about the social politics in 18th century England" (verb) carry on a conversation (verb) to consider or examine in speech or writing; "The article covered all the different aspects of this question"; "The class discussed Dante's `Inferno'"
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| 38 | discredit | (noun) the state of being held in low esteem; "your actions will bring discredit to your name"; "because of the scandal the school has fallen into disrepute" (verb) reject as false; refuse to accept (verb) cause to be distrusted or disbelieved; "The paper discredited the politician with its nasty commentary" (verb) damage the reputation of; "This newspaper story discredits the politicians"
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| 39 | disdain | (noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient (noun) lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; "he was held in contempt"; "the despite in which outsiders were held is legendary" (verb) reject with contempt; "She spurned his advances" (verb) look down on with disdain; "He despises the people he has to work for"; "The professor scorns the students who don't catch on immediately"
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| 40 | disencumber | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty; "I cannot extricate myself from this task"
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| 41 | dishevelled | (adjective satellite) in disarray; extremely disorderly; "her clothing was disheveled"; "powder-smeared and frowzled"; "a rumpled unmade bed"; "a bed with tousled sheets"; "his brown hair was tousled, thick, and curly"- Al Spiers
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| 42 | disingenuous | (adjective) not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness; "an ambitious, disingenuous, philistine, and hypocritical operator, who...exemplified...the most disagreeable traits of his time"- David Cannadine; "a disingenuous excuse"
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| 43 | disinter | (verb) dig up for reburial or for medical investigation; of dead bodies
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| 44 | dislodge | (verb) remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space" (verb) remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble" (verb) change place or direction; "Shift one's position"
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| 45 | dismal | (adjective satellite) causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" (adjective satellite) depressing in character or appearance; "drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
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| 46 | disparate | (adjective satellite) including markedly dissimilar elements; "a disparate aggregate of creeds and songs and prayers" (adjective satellite) fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind; "such disparate attractions as grand opera and game fishing"; "disparate ideas"
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| 47 | disparity | (noun) inequality or difference in some respect
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| 48 | dispassionate | (adjective satellite) unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice; "a journalist should be a dispassionate reporter of fact"
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| 49 | dissemble | (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive; "He feigned that he was ill"; "He shammed a headache" (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly; "She's just acting" (verb) hide under a false appearance; "He masked his disappointment"
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