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Daunting
intimidating, causing to lose courage
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Debacle
a disastrous failure, disruption
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Debase
to lower the quality
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Debauch
to courrpt by means of sensual pleasures
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Debunk
to expose the falseness
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Decorous
socially proper, appropriate
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Decry
to criticize openly
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Deface
to ruin or injure something's appearance
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Defamatory
harmful toward anothers reputation
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Defer
to postpone something
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Deferential
showing respect
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Defile
to make unclean, impure
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Defunct
no longer used or existing
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Delegate
to hand over responsibility
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Deliberate
intentional, careful
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Delineate
to describe, outline
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Demagogue
a leader who appeals to people prejudice
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Demarcation
the marking of boundaries
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Demean
to lwoer the status
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Denounce
to criticize publicly
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Deplore
to feel or express sorrow
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Deride
to laugh at mockingly
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Derivative
take ndirectly from a source
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Desecrate
to violate the sacredness
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Desolate
deserted, lifeless
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Despondent
feeling depressed
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Despot
one who has total power
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Devious
not straightfoward
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Dialet
a variation of language
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Didactic
inteded to instruct
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Diffuse
to scatter, thin out
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Dilatory
tending to delay
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Diligent
showing hard work
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Diminutive
small or miniature
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Disaffected
rebellious, resentful
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disavow
to deny knowledge
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discomfit
to thwart, baffle
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Discordant
not agreeing, not in harmony
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Discrepancy
difference, failure of things
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Discretion
the quality of being resevered in speech; good judgement
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Discursive
rambling, lacking order
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Disgruntled
upset, not content
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Disheartened
feelign a loss of spirit or morale
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Disparage
to criticize or speak ill
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Disparate
sharply differing
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Disrepute
state of being held in low regard
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Dissemble
to conceal, fake
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Disseminate
to spread widely
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Dissonance
lack of harmony
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Dissuade
to persuade someone not to do something
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Divulge
to reveal something secret
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Dogmatic
aggresively and arrogantly certain
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Duplicity
crafty dishonest
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Dynamic
actively changing
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