From Dabble to Desuetude

1. Dabble – work in a nonsense fashion; play hands in water
2. Damp – lessen intensity; diminish; to make something such as feeling or hope less strong
3. Dank – dark and damp
4. Dapper – a small man wearing attractive clothes, well dressed
5. Dappled – spotted
6. Daub – to spread a wet substance such as paint on a surface in a careless way
7. Dawdle – loiter, waste time; to do something slowly that annoys others ‘stop dawdling’
8. Deadpan – impassive, wooden
9. Dearth – scarcity
10. Debacle – disaster, catastrophe, fiasco, devastation, misfortune, calamity, deluge
11. Debase – degrade, defile, demean, disgrace
12. Debauch – corrupt, seduce from virtue; did Socrates debauch young people by enticing them to question as iconoclasts?
13. Debauched (adj) – a debauched person is immoral in their sexual behavior, drinks a lot of alcohol, takes drugs etc. – bacchanalian
14. Debilitate – week or enfeeble; to make somebody physically or mentally ill
15. Debonair – urbane and suave, amiable, cheerful and carefree; a man with debonair character wears fashionable clothes, and is attractive, relaxed and confident.
16. Debunk – exposed as false, exaggerated, worthless, ridicule; to prove that something such as an idea or belief is false and silly
17. Debutante – a young woman just entering into fashion society
18. Decadence – the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities
19. Decant – to pour wine carefully in decanter (wine container); to move people from one place to another
20. Decipher – to understand code or cipher; to understand confusing things
21. Décolleté – a piece of woman cloth which is very low at the top so that you can see part of her shoulders and breasts
22. Decorum – polite behavior or propriety
23. Decoy – a bird used by hunter to attract other birds; lure or bait (insect used in fishing hook)
24. Decrepitude – the state of being old and no longer in good condition or good health; dilapidation
25. Decry – to strongly criticize somebody or something especially publicly; condemn, disparage; deprecate
26. Deface – mar, disfigure, to damage the appearance of something especially by drawing or writing on it. If you deface library books you have to pay fine.
27. Defeatist – behaving is a way that shows that you think you will fail or lose
28. Defection – abandon a party and join another, desertion, “She was deserted or defected by her husband”
29. Deference – courtesy, respect
30. Launder – money laundering is to hide the origin of money obtained from illegal activities by putting it into legal business.
31. Defiance – refusal to obey a person or rule; “Nuclear testing was resumed in defiance of an international ban.”
32. Defile – tarnish; to spoil something important, pure or holy
33. Deflect – to direct criticism, attention, or blame away from yourself towards someone else; avert, distract, ward off, turn away
34. Defoliate – to remove the leaves from a plant or tree using defoliant – a chemical
35. Defray – to give somebody back the money that they have spent on something
36. Defrock – divest, to remove a priest from their job because they have done something wrong
37. Deft – dexterous
38. Deify – to treat somebody as god or deity
39. Deign – condescend stoop
40. Delirium – a mental state where somebody becomes delirious, usually because of illness,
41. Delirious – talking or thinking in a confused way
42. Delude – to make somebody believe something that is not true; deceive, cozen
43. Delusion – false belief, hallucination, a belief that you are more important than you really are
44. Delusive – deception, raising vain hopes
45. Delve – dig, investigate; delving into old books and manuscripts is a part of researcher’s job
46. Demean – degrade; humiliate, to make people have less respect to someone
47. Demented – affected by dementia; senile dementia, having mental illness, insane
48. Demolition – destruction of a building
49. Demoniac – like a demon
50. Demure – to object to do something
51. Denigrate - to criticize in a way that has no value; blacken
52. Denizen – inhabitant, resident, regular visitor, dweller
53. Denouement – the end of a book, play or series of events, final development of a play
54. Deposition – a formal written statement by a witness that is read out in a court because the witness cannot be present at the court
55. Deprecate – express disapproval of; protest against; belittle
56. Depredation – plundering, damage or harm that is dine to something
57. Deranged – disarrange; behaving in an uncontrolled or dangerous way because of mental illness
58. Derelict (adj) – abandoned, negligent; something such as building or piece of land that is derelict is empty, not used, and in a bad condition
59. Deride – mock, ridicule, make fun of
60. Descry – to suddenly see somebody on the way
61. Desiccate – to make dry “desiccated tomato”
62. Desolate – a place empty and without people; forlorn
63. Desperado – a person who does dangerous and criminal things without caring himself or other people
64. Despise – hate; to dislike or have no respect for somebody or something
65. Despoil – plunder, loot; to steal something valuable from a place
66. Despondent – depressed, gloomy, hopeless
67. Desuetude – inaction, state of disuse, state of inactivity