SAT "D" words (Large collection)

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More than 150 "D" Words from SAT books
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  1. dally
    behave carelessly or indifferently
  2. dapper
    marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
  3. daunt
    cause to lose courage
  4. daunting
    discouraging through fear
  5. dauntless
    invulnerable to fear or intimidation
  6. dawdle
    hang or fall in movement, progress, development, etc.
  7. dearth
    an insufficient quantity or number
  8. debacle
    a sudden and complete disaster
  9. debase
    make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance
  10. debauch
    a wild gathering
  11. debilitate
    make weak
  12. debunk
    expose while ridiculing
  13. declaim
    recite in a skilled and formal way
  14. decorous
    characterized by propriety and dignity and good taste
  15. decorum
    propriety in manners and conduct
  16. decry
    express strong disapproval of
  17. deduce
    reason from the general to the particular
  18. deface
    mar or spoil the appearance of
  19. defamation
    an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
  20. defame
    charge falsely or with malicious intent
  21. defer
    yield to another's wish or opinion
  22. deference
    courteous regard for people's feelings
  23. deferential
    showing courteous regard for people's feelings
  24. defiance
    a hostile challenge
  25. defiantly
    in a rebellious manner
  26. defile
    make dirty or spotty
  27. deft
    skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
  28. defunct
    no longer in force or use; inactive
  29. dejected
    affected or marked by low spirits
  30. delegate
    a person appointed or elected to represent others
  31. deleterious
    harmful to living things
  32. deliberate
    carefully thought out in advance
  33. delicacy
    the quality of being exquisitely fine in appearance
  34. delineate
    represented accurately or precisely
  35. deluge
    a heavy rain
  36. demagogue
    a leader who seeks support by appealing to popular passions
  37. demarcation
    the boundary of a specific area
  38. demean
    reduce in worth or character, usually verbally
  39. demeanor
    the way a person behaves toward other people
  40. demographic
    a statistic characterizing human populations
  41. demure
    shy or modest, often in a playful or provocative way
  42. denigrate
    attack the good name and reputation of someone
  43. denizen
    a plant or animal naturalized in a region
  44. denounce
    speak out against
  45. depict
    give a description of
  46. deplete
    use up, as resources or materials
  47. deplore
    express strong disapproval of
  48. depravity
    moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles
  49. deprecate
    express strong disapproval of; deplore
  50. derelict
    a person without a home, job, or property
  51. deride
    treat or speak of with contempt
  52. derivation
    the source or origin from which something comes
  53. derivative
    a compound obtained from another compound
  54. descendant
    a person considered as coming from some ancestor or race
  55. descry
    catch sight of
  56. desecrate
    violate the sacred character of a place or language
  57. desiccated
    thoroughly dried out
  58. desolate
    providing no shelter or sustenance
  59. despondent
    without or almost without hope
  60. despot
    a cruel and oppressive dictator
  61. destitute
    poor enough to need help from others
  62. deter
    turn away from as by fear or persuasion
  63. detrimental
    causing harm or injury
  64. devious
    turning away from a straight course
  65. devout
    deeply religious
  66. dexterity
    adroitness in using the hands
  67. diabolical
    showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness
  68. dialect
    the usage or vocabulary characteristic of a group of people
  69. diaphanous
    so thin as to transmit light
  70. diatribe
    thunderous verbal attack
  71. dichotomy
    a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses
  72. didactic
    instructive, especially excessively
  73. diffident
    showing modest reserve
  74. diffuse
    spread out; not concentrated in one place
  75. digress
    wander from a direct or straight course
  76. dilapidated
    in a state of decay, ruin, or deterioration
  77. dilatory
    wasting time
  78. dilettante
    an amateur engaging in an activity without serious intention
  79. diligent
    quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness
  80. diminutive
    very small
  81. dire
    fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
  82. dirge
    a song or hymn of mourning as a memorial to a dead person
  83. disaffected
    discontented as toward authority
  84. disavow
    refuse to acknowledge
  85. discern
    perceive, recognize, or detect
  86. disclose
    expose to view as by removing a cover
  87. disconcert
    cause to lose one's composure
  88. disconcerting
    causing an emotional disturbance
  89. discord
    lack of agreement or harmony
  90. discordant
    not in agreement or harmony
  91. discreet
    marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
  92. discrepancy
    a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
  93. discrete
    constituting a separate entity or part
  94. discretion
    power of making choices unconstrained by external agencies
  95. discursive
    tending to cover a wide range of subjects
  96. disdain
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  97. disenfranchise
    deprive of voting rights
  98. disfigure
    mar or spoil the appearance of
  99. disgruntled
    in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
  100. disheveled
    in disarray; extremely disorderly
  101. disingenuous
    not straightforward or candid
  102. disinter
    dig up for reburial or for medical investigation
  103. disinterested
    unaffected by concern for one's own welfare
  104. disjointed
    taken apart at the points of connection
  105. dismal
    causing dejection
  106. dismantle
    take off or remove
  107. dismay
    the feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
  108. disparage
    express a negative opinion of
  109. disparate
    fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
  110. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
  111. dispassionate
    unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice
  112. dispatch
    the act of sending off something
  113. dispel
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  114. dispense
    administer or bestow, as in small portions
  115. disperse
    move away from each other
  116. displace
    cause to move, usually with force or pressure
  117. disposable
    an item that can be thrown away after it has been used
  118. disposition
    your usual mood
  119. dissemble
    behave unnaturally or affectedly
  120. disseminate
    cause to become widely known
  121. dissent
    a difference of opinion
  122. dissertation
    a treatise advancing a point of view resulting from research
  123. dissident
    a person who objects to some established policy
  124. dissimilar
    not alike
  125. dissimulate
    hide feelings from other people
  126. dissipate
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  127. dissipated
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  128. dissipation
    breaking up and scattering by dispersion
  129. dissolute
    unrestrained by convention or morality
  130. dissolution
    separation into component parts
  131. dissolve
    pass into a solution
  132. dissonance
    disagreeable sounds
  133. dissonant
    harmonically unresolved
  134. dissuade
    turn away from by persuasion
  135. distant
    separated in space or coming from far away
  136. distend
    cause to expand as if by internal pressure
  137. distill
    undergo condensation
  138. distillation
    purifying a liquid by boiling it and condensing its vapors
  139. distort
    twist and press out of shape
  140. distract
    draw someone's attention away from something
  141. distraught
    deeply agitated especially from emotion
  142. distress
    a state of adversity
  143. divergent
    tending to move apart in different directions
  144. diverse
    distinctly dissimilar or unlike
  145. divest
    take away possessions from someone
  146. divine
    a clergyman or other person in religious orders
  147. divisive
    causing or characterized by disagreement or disunity
  148. divulge
    make known to the public information previously kept secret
  149. docile
    easily handled or managed
  150. doctrinaire
    a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
  151. doctrine
    a belief accepted as authoritative by some group or school
  152. document
    a representation of a person's thinking with symbolic marks
  153. dogged
    stubbornly unyielding
  154. dogmatic
    pertaining to a code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
  155. doleful
    filled with or evoking sadness
  156. domestic
    of or relating to the home
  157. dominant
    most frequent or common
  158. dormant
    inactive but capable of becoming active
  159. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
  160. dreary
    lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
  161. drudgery
    hard, monotonous, routine work
  162. dubious
    fraught with uncertainty or doubt
  163. duplicity
    the act of deceiving or acting in bad faith
  164. durable
    existing for a long time
  165. duration
    the period of time during which something continues
  166. duress
    compulsory force or threat
  167. dutiful
    willingly obedient out of a sense of respect
  168. dwell
    inhabit or live in
  169. dwindle
    become smaller or lose substance
  170. dynamic
    characterized by action or forcefulness of personality
  171. dystopian
    of an imaginary place where life is extremely bad
Created on Sat Aug 11 20:48:05 EDT 2012 (updated Mon Sep 17 05:01:36 EDT 2012)

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