From Desultory to Disburse

1. Desultory – aimless, haphazard; showing that you have no plan; “desultory meeting”
2. Detraction – petty criticism, carping, slandering, aspersion, “one who detracts is detractor”
3. Detrimental – harmful, or damaging
4. Devise – think, cogitate, plan, cerebrate, invent; “Devise your lesson carefully”
5. Devolve – delegate your duty to your deputy; “when Nepal becomes federal republic powers need to be devolved to provinces”
6. Diabolical – terrible, devilish; extremely bad or pestering; “The traffic was diabolical”
7. Diadem – crown
8. Diaphanous – transparent, sheer; (of cloth) so light and fine that you can almost see through; “her décolleté was enough diaphanous to attract amorous Adonis”.
9. Diffidence – lack of confidence; shyness
10. Dilation – expansion, especially of pupil – verb is dilate
11. Dilettante – dabbler; amateur; a dilettante “let it go in the same way, what matters”– and debutante says, “No, be meticulous, you know, I have just started and I should let the crest of my family fall”.
12. Din – long sound; children were making din while the drum was making clangor
13. Dinghy – a small ship boat – Adjective – dull, not fresh or cheerless
14. Dint – means; effort; “By dint of much hard work you can score a better logogram is GRE”
15. Diorama – a model representing a scene with figures, especially in museum.
16. Dirge – requiem, threnody, lament with music; “Jackson got his dirge”
17. Disabuse – to say somebody that what they think is true is, in fact, not true; correct a false impression; undeceive; “Let me disabuse him first so that we can forge consensus”, said Girija to Nepal.
18. Disaffected – no longer satisfied with your situation, organization, belief, etc. and therefore not loyal to it; when children are disaffected for a long time with your principles they start being disaffected; “I believe conflict is begotten due to long standing disaffection”
19. Disapprobation – disapproval of somebody or something that you think is morally wrong
20. Disarray – disorderly or untidy state; a state of confusion; dismay
21. Disavow – disclaim, deny; to state publicly that you have no knowledge of something or you are not responsible for something or somebody; “they disavowed claims of split in the party”
22. Disburse – to pay money to somebody from a large amount that has been collected for a purpose; “The disbursement of funds”