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- Dabble – work in nonserious fashion, splash around
- Dale – valley
- Dally – act or move slowly
- Dalliance – dawdling
- Dank – damp
- Dapper – neat and trim in dress and appearance ( of a man), smart, neat
- Dastard – coward
- Dandle – waste time
- Daub – carelessly coat or smear ( s surface ) with a thick or sticky substance
- Daunt – intimidate, frighten
- Deadpan – blank, expressionless, straight faced
- Debacle – sudden downfall
- Dearth – scarcity
- Debase – to reduce dignity
- Debauch – to corrupt morally
- Debilitate – weaken
- Debonair – courteous
- Decadence – deterioration, decay
- Decant – to pour gently
- Decapitate – cut off the head of (someone), attempt to undermine (a group or organizations) by removing its leader.
- Deciduous – leaf shedding
- Declivity – downward slope
- Decorous – proper, seemly, decent
- Decry – express strong disapproval, disparage
- Deduce – draw as a logical conclusion, reason, work out
- Defamation – damaging the good reputation of someone, character assassination
- Defrock – deprive of ecclesiastical status (a person in holy orders)
- Deft – neat, skillful
- Deify – worship or regard as a god
- Degenerate – become worse, deteriorate
- Deign – do something that on considers to be beneath one’s dignity
- Deleterious- harmful
- Delineate- describe or portray precisely. Indicate the exact position of (border or boundary)
- Delirium – mental disorder marked by confusion
- Delude – deceive
- Deluge – flood, rush
- Demagogue – leader who incites
- Demeanor – outward behavior or bearing
- Demur – hesitate
- Denizen – in habitants
- Deprecate – disapprove, find unacceptable, be against
- Derelict – abandoned, negligent
- Descry – spy out, catch sight of
- Desecrate – treat with violent disrespect ( a sacred place or thing)
- Desolate – feeling or showing great unhappiness or loneliness, (of a place ) uninhabited and giving an impression of bleak emptiness.
- Despot – tyrant, dictator, autocrat, a ruler who holds power and exercises it in a cruel or oppressive way.
- Deterrent – that discourage
- Detonate – explode
- Devour – eat hungrily or quickly
- Diabolic – devilish
- Dilate – expand ,to become larger and wider
- Dilettante – aimless follower of art, a person with an amateur interest in the arts.
- Diligence – steadiness of effort, persistent hard work
- Dingy – dull, not fresh
- Dire – disastrous
- Dirge – sad song
- Disaffected – disloyal
- Disband – dissolve, disperse
- Discerning – mentally quick and observant, having insight
- Discomfit – defeat
- Discourse – formal discussion
- Discredit – defame
- Disdain – the feeling that someone or something is unworthy, scorn
- Disembark – leave a ship, aircraft, or train
- Dispel – scatter, drive away, cause to vanish
- Disport – amuse
- Dissemble – disguise, pretend
- Dissident – dissenting, rebellious
- Dissipate – waste, scatter
- Dissuade – persuade not to do
- Doff – take off
- Doldrums – a state of inactivity or stagnation as in business or art
- Dolt – stupid person
- Dotage – the period of life in which a person is old and weak
- Dote – cherish, be extremely and uncritically fond of, be silly or feeble minded especially as a result of old age.
- Douse – drench, plunge into water
- Drivel – nonsense, foolishness
- Drudgery – hard work, dull and fatiguing work, uninspiring or menial labor
- Dwindled – shrink, reduce
