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.DEARTH: Scarcity - a dearth of news, brought about by censorship

Antonyms: plethora, abundance

DEFERENCE: Submitting to the wishes or judgment of another - yielded out of deference to the old man

Synonyms: respect, complaisance, veneration

Antonym: recalcitrance

.DEITY: A god -The sun was a deity to ancient peoples

Synonym: divinity

.DELECTABLE: Very pleasing - a delectable meal, tastefully prepared

.DELETE: To erase or cancel, take out or remove - deletedan offensive phrase

Synonyms: expunge, censor, efface, eradicate

.DELINEATE: To sketch or portray - striking features, delineated by a master artist

.DELINQUENT (noun): An offender - found to be a delinquent by the court

adj: Failing to fulfill an obligation - too many people who are delinquent in meeting their civic duties

Synonym: derelict

.DELUGE: A great flood; downpour - a spring deluge which caused the river to overflow

DEMAGOGUE: A leader who tries to stir the passions of people for his own purposes - the mob roused by an unprincipled demagogue

.DEMEANOR: Behavior; bearing - carrying himself with a proud demeanor

Synonyms: deportment, mien

.DEMURE: Affectedly or falsely modest or prim; serious demure as a Victorian maiden

Synonyms: sedate, staid, decorous, prudish, coy

Antonyms: immodest, frivolous

.DENOUNCE (noun: DENUNCIATION): To speak against - denounced by the press as a traitor

Synonyms: stigmatize, censure, reprehend, castigate

Antonyms: laud, eulogize

.DEPLETE: To empty or to use up - depleted the public treasury by vast building programs

Synonyms: exhaust, drain

Antonyms: replenish; (adj.) replete

.DEPLORE: To express sorrow or grief over - a lamentable situation deplored by all parties

Synonyms: lament, decry, grieve

.DEPRAVED: Of low morals; corrupt - a depraved mind, devising evil

Synonyms: debased, wicked, vicious, perverted

DEPRECATE: To plead or argue against a certain course of action - deprecated the proposal severely

Synonyms: remonstrate, protest, decry, expostulate

Antonym: sanction

.DEPRECIATE: To belittle or speak slightingly of - depreciated John's acting ability

Synonyms: disparage, derogate (adj). derogatory

Antonyms: enhance, magnify, extol, laud, eulogize

.DEVASTATION: Widespread ruin - the city left in utter devastation by war

Synonyms: destruction, desolation

.(1)DEVIOUS: Winding; indirect - took a devious, rather than the direct way home

Synonym: circuitous

(2).Straying from the right course - used devious means to attain his wicked ends

Synonyms: crooked, erring

.DEVOID: Lacking in; not possessing - a speech devoid of even a trace of ill-will

Synonym: destitute

Antonyms: abounding, prevalent

.DEVOUT: Devoted to religious observances - devout in his regularity of attendance at worship

Synonyms: pious, religious

Antonym: impious

DICTUM: Art authoritative statement; a saying-an imperial dictum demanding instant compliance

.DIDACTIC: Designed to teach, imparting a lesson - a poem with a didactic purpose

Synonym: pedagogical

.DIFFIDENT: Lacking in self-confidence- too diffident to lead a group

Synonyms: shy, timid, reserved, reticent, retiring

Antonyms: forward, aggressive

DILEMMA: A situation calling for a choice between two equally difficult alternatives; hence, a difficult or perplexing situation - faced with a dilemma defying solution

Synonyms: predicament, quandary, plight

DILETTANTE: One who dabbles in the fine arts for amusement only and without concentrated study - a doctor by profession, a dilettante in art

Synonyms: amateur, connoisseur

.DISCONCERT: To confuse; to embarrass - disconcerted by his suspicious stare

Synonyms: perturb, discomfit, discompose, abash, disquiet, fluster

DISCONSOLATE: Depressed; without hope or possibility of consolation - made disconsolate by abject poverty

Synonyms: inconsolable, dejected

Antonyms: blithesome, carefree

DISCOURSE: To converse or talk; to discuss - discoursed at length on the rise of political parties

.DISCRETE: Separate - two discrete issues, totally unrelated

.DISCURSIVE: Rambling from one subject to another - a discursive letter, covering many topics

Synonyms: desultory, digressive

DISPARITY (adj.: DISPARATE): Inequality; difference in image, quantity, character, or rank - great disparity between promise and performance

DISPASSIONATE: Free from feeling or partiality - coldly dispassionate as the chairman of the meeting

Synonyms: palm, impartial

Antonym: partial

.DISPATCH (verb): To do speedily; to send off - dispatched with remarkable promptness

Synonym: expedite

.noun: A speedy performance; the sending off of something - done with all possible dispatch

Synonyms: celerity, alacrity

.DISPEL: To drive away; to scatter - dispelled a doubt that had lingered

Synonyms: dissipate, disperse, diffuse

DISSENT (noun: DISSENSION): To disagree; to differ in opinion - He dissented violently, rejecting compromise

DISSOLUTE: Living loosely; unrestrained in conduct or morals - his life wasted by dissolute conduct

Synonyms: debauched, dissipated, profligate

.DISTRAUGHT: Mentally distressed; distracted - distraught by trials and tribulations

Synonym: harassed

DIVERSE: (verb: DIVERSIFY; noun: DIVISIBILITY) : Varied; different - two diverse characters; one candid, the other insincere

Synonym: multifarious

.DIVERTING: Entertaining - a diverting one of the most amusing I've ever seen

.DIVULGE: To make public or reveal - refused to divulge his source of information

Synonyms: disclose, impart

DOGMATIC: Positive in expressing an opinion; asserting an opinion as though it were an undisputed fact - spoken dogmatically, as if the speaker considered himself infallible

Synonyms: overbearing, opinionated, peremptory, dictatorial

.DOLOROUS: Sorrowful; mournful - a dolorous song full of sorrow for past joys

Synonyms: doleful, lugubrious, grievous

Antonyms: jocund, blithe, mirthful

.DYNAMIC: Forceful - possessed dynamic energy, tireless and powerful

Synonym: energetic

Antonyms: static, inert, dormant, torpid, sluggish, quiescent

+Written inSun 22 Jun 2008Time4:23 PMByglorya |