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- daedal: skillful; artistic; ingenious.
- dapple: a small contrasting blotch; also, to mark with spots.
- dapple: a small spot or blotch.
- defenestrate: to throw out of a window.
- deign: to condescend.
- deipnosophist: one skilled in table talk.
- delectation: great pleasure; delight.
- deleterious: hurtful; destructive; pernicious.
- deliquesce: to melt away or become liquid.
- demagogue: a leader who obtains power by means of appeals to the emotions and prejudices of the populace
- demagogue: a leader who tries to stir up people by appeals to emotion, prejudice, etc.
- demur: to object; also, to delay.
- denizen: an inhabitant.
- denouement: the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work.
- deprecate: to disapprove of strongly.
- deprecate: to disapprove of; also, to belittle.
- depredation: an act of plundering or ravaging.
- deracinate: to uproot.
- deride: to laugh at with contempt.
- derogate: to deviate from expectation; also, to detract; also, to disparage.
- descant: a discourse; also, to discourse.
- descry: to catch sight of something distant or obscure.
- descry: to catch sight of; to detect.
- desideratum: something desired.
- desuetude: disuse.
- desultory: without logical sequence; disconnected; aimless.
- detritus: debris.
- detritus: debris. 672. detritus: debris.
- deus ex machina: an agent who appears unexpectedly to solve an apparently insoluble difficulty.
- diablerie: sorcery; also, mischievous conduct.
- diadem: a crown.
- diaphanous: allowing light to pass through.
- dictum: an authoritative statement.
- didactic: conveying instruction; teaching some moral lesson.
- diffident: bashful or unassertive.
- diffident: showing modest reserve.
- digerati: persons knowledgeable about computers.
- diktat: an authoritative decree or order.
- dilatory: given to, or marked by, procrastination or delay.
- dilatory: inclined to put off what ought to be done at once.
- dilettante: an amateur; also, an admirer or lover of the fine arts.
- discomfit: to disconcert; also, to thwart.
- disconcert: to disturb the composure of.
- disconsolate: hopelessly sad; also, saddening; cheerless.
- discrete: constituting a separate thing; also, consisting of distinct or unconnected parts.
- discursive: digressive; rambling; also, marked by analytical reasoning.
- dishabille: the state of being carelessly or partially dressed.
- disheveled: in loose disorder; disarranged.
- disparate: fundamentally different; composed of markedly dissimilar elements.
- disport: to frolic; to amuse (oneself).
- disquisition: a formal discourse on a subject.
- dissimulate: to feign; to pretend.
- dissimulate: to hide under a false appearance; also, to feign or pretend.
- dissolute: loose in morals and conduct.
- distrait: divided or withdrawn in attention, especially because of anxiety.
- doff: to take off; to remove; also, to rid oneself of.
- dolorous: marked by, causing, or expressing grief or sorrow.
- donnybrook: a brawl or dispute.
- doppelganger: a ghostly double.
- dotage: feebleness of mind due to old age.
- dotage: senility.
- doughty: valiant; brave.
- doula: a woman who assists in childbirth.
- dour: stern or unyielding or gloomy.
- dour: stubbornly unyielding; also, harshly uninviting; also, showing a brooding ill humor.
- doyen: the senior member of a body or group.
- dubiety: the condition or quality of being doubtful; also, a matter of doubt.
- dudgeon: a state or fit of intense indignation.
- dulcet: melodious
- dyspeptic: pertaining to or having indigestion; also, ill-humored.
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