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  1. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
  2. dishevel
    put into disorder or disarray
  3. disjointed
    taken apart at the points of connection
  4. dispel
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  5. dismal
    causing dejection
  6. drear
    causing dejection
  7. dreary
    lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
  8. gloomy
    depressingly dark
  9. dingy
    thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
  10. drab
    a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
  11. dismay
    the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
  12. dread
    fearful expectation or anticipation
  13. edginess
    feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
  14. disquietude
    feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable
  15. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  16. distrait
    having the attention diverted especially because of anxiety
  17. distraught
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
  18. doggerel
    a comic verse of irregular measure
  19. dither
    be undecided or uncertain
  20. divine
    a clergyman or other person in religious orders
  21. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  22. doldrums
    a state of inactivity
  23. gainsay
    take exception to
  24. doughty
    possessing courage and determination
  25. dowager
    a widow holding property received from her deceased husband
  26. doyen
    a man who is the senior member of a group
  27. dregs
    sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid
  28. drool
    saliva spilling from the mouth
  29. drivel
    saliva spilling from the mouth
  30. droll
    comical in an odd or whimsical manner
  31. laggard
    someone who takes more time than necessary
  32. lagger
    someone who takes more time than necessary
  33. drone
    make a monotonous low dull sound
  34. dudgeon
    a feeling of intense righteous anger
  35. dotage
    mental infirmity as a consequence of old age
  36. don
    a teacher or tutor, especially at Cambridge or Oxford
  37. doting
    extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent
  38. duenna
    a woman chaperon
  39. dulcet
    pleasing to the ear
  40. duress
    compulsory force or threat
Created on Thu May 22 12:31:32 EDT 2008 (updated Fri May 23 13:11:52 EDT 2008)

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