® Devoid: lacking: He was devoid of any personal desire for gain in his endeavor to secure improvement in the community.
® Dictum: authoritative and weighty statement: He repeated the statement as though it were the dictum of the most expert worker in the group.
® Diffidence: shyness: You must overcome your diffidence if you intend to become a salesperson.
® Diffusion: wordiness, spreading in all directions like a gas: Your composition suffers from a diffusion of ideas, try to be more compact.
® Dilemma: problem, choice of two unsatisfactory alternatives: In this dilemma, he knew no one to whom he could turn for advice.
® Dint: means, effort: He succeeded by dint of sheer hard work.
® Dire: disastrous: People ignored hiss dire predictions of an approaching depression.
® Disdain: treat with scorn or contempt: You make enemies of all you disdain.
® Dismember: cut into small parts: The hungry lion dismembered the deer.
® Disparity: difference, condition of inequality: The disparity in their ages made no difference at all.
® Dissimulate: pretend, conceal by feigning: She tried to dissimulate her grief by her gay attitude.
® Dissolute: loose in morals: The dissolute life led by these people is indeed shocking.
® Distortion: twisting out of shape: It is difficult to believe the newspaper accounts of this event because of the distortions and exaggerations written by the reporters.
® Distraught: upset, distracted by anxiety: The distraught parents searched the jungle for their lost child.
® Diverse: differing in some characteristics, various: There are diverse ways of approaching this problem.
® Docile: obedient, easily managed: As docile as he seems today, that old lion was once a ferocious, snarling beast.
® Dogmatic: positive, arbitrary: Do not be so dogmatic about that statement, it can be easily refuted.
® Dormant: sleeping, lethargic, torpid: Sometimes dormant talents in our friends surprise those of us who never realize, how gifted our acquaintances really are.
® Dubious: doubtful: I am dubious about the wisdom of the action.
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