Academic Language Vocabulary List 6

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SAT vocabulary
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  1. digress
    wander from a direct or straight course
  2. diligent
    quietly and steadily persevering in detail or exactness
  3. discern
    perceive, recognize, or detect
  4. discord
    lack of agreement or harmony
  5. discredit
    the state of being held in low esteem
  6. discreet
    marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint
  7. discrepancy
    a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions
  8. disdain
    lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike
  9. disgruntled
    in a state of sulky dissatisfaction
  10. dismiss
    stop associating with
  11. disparity
    inequality or difference in some respect
  12. dispel
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  13. disposition
    your usual mood
  14. disseminate
    cause to become widely known
  15. dissent
    a difference of opinion
  16. dissipate
    cause to separate and go in different directions
  17. divergent
    tending to move apart in different directions
  18. divisive
    causing or characterized by disagreement or disunity
  19. docile
    easily handled or managed
  20. dour
    showing a brooding ill humor
Created on Mon Oct 21 10:15:42 EDT 2013 (updated Thu Aug 20 10:26:12 EDT 2015)

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