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delay, slow, retard, detain.
These verbs mean to cause to be later or slower than expected or desired.
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deplete, drain, exhaust, impoverish, enervate.
These verbs all mean to weaken severely by removing something essential.
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despair, hopelessness, desperation, despondency, discouragement.
These nouns denote loss of hope.
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devote, dedicate, consecrate, pledge.
These verbs are compared as they mean to give to a particular end and
especially to a higher purpose.
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dexterous, deft, adroit, handy, nimble.
These adjectives refer to skill and ease in performance.
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dialect, vernacular, jargon, lingo.
These nouns denote forms of language that vary from the standard.
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dictatorial, authoritarian, dogmatic, imperious, overbearing.
These adjectives mean asserting or tending to assert one's authority or to
impose one's will on other persons.
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diction, wording, vocabulary, phraseology, phrasing.
These nouns denote choice of words and the way in which they are used.
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difference, dissimilarity, unlikeness, divergence, variation, distinction, discrepancy.
These nouns refer to a lack of correspondence or agreement.
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dirty, filthy, foul, nasty, squalid, grimy.
These adjectives apply to what is unclean, impure, or unkempt.
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disaster, calamity, catastrophe, cataclysm.
These nouns refer to an event having fatal or ruinous results.
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discord, strife, contention, dissension, conflict, clash, variance.
These nouns are compared as they mean a state of disagreement and disharmony.
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