| Name _____________________________ | Date ___________________ |
| Multiple Choice |
| ______ | 1. | detest |
| a. to make or become worse or inferior in character, quality, value, etc. | ||
| b. to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely. | ||
| c. a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism |
| ______ | 2. | detract |
| a. a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing. | ||
| b. to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. | ||
| c. to separate from some whole. | ||
| d. to draw away or divert; distract |
| ______ | 3. | despise |
| a. to regard with contempt, distaste, disgust, or disdain; scorn; loathe. | ||
| b. feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom | ||
| c. to upset greatly; have an overwhelming effect on. |
| ______ | 4. | diatribe |
| a. a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing. | ||
| b. to prevent; check; arrest | ||
| c. to pour (a liquid or gas) or to allow to flow out, and spread freely. |
| ______ | 5. | diffuse |
| a. to soften or break up (light), as by reflection from an uneven surface. | ||
| b. to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely. | ||
| c. causing harm, disadvantage, or deterioration. |
| ______ | 6. | detain |
| a. a well-known saying; maxim. | ||
| b. having no money or other means of living; impoverished. | ||
| c. to prevent from going on; stop or delay. | ||
| d. the conversation between characters in a novel, drama, etc. |
| ______ | 7. | devour |
| a. to digress, as from a line of thought or reasoning. | ||
| b. to forcefully take belongings or goods from; plunder. | ||
| c. to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously. |
| ______ | 8. | desert |
| a. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson. | ||
| b. an area of the ocean in which it is believed no marine life exists. | ||
| c. to engulf or swallow up. | ||
| d. to take away a part, as from quality, value, or reputation (usually fol. by from). |
| ______ | 9. | destitute |
| a. Physics. to spread by diffusion. | ||
| b. to leave destitute. | ||
| c. to draw away or divert; distract |
| ______ | 10. | deviate |
| a. to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc. | ||
| b. to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage. | ||
| c. to upset greatly; have an overwhelming effect on. | ||
| d. not the straightest, most direct way; winding; roundabout. |
| ______ | 11. | desecration |
| a. to digress, as from a line of thought or reasoning. | ||
| b. an exchange of ideas or opinions on a particular issue, esp. a political or religious issue, with a view to reaching an amicable agreement or settlement. | ||
| c. to violate the sacredness of; treat sacrilegiously. |
| ______ | 12. | despondent |
| a. to feel abhorrence of; hate; dislike intensely. | ||
| b. causing harm, disadvantage, or deterioration. | ||
| c. feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom |
| ______ | 13. | didactic |
| a. a bitter, abusive attack in speech or writing. | ||
| b. feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement, or gloom | ||
| c. teaching or intending to teach a moral lesson. |
| ______ | 14. | detrimental |
| a. causing harm, disadvantage, or deterioration. | ||
| b. to pour (a liquid or gas) or to allow to flow out, and spread freely. | ||
| c. conversation between two or more persons. |
| ______ | 15. | despoil |
| a. to prevent; check; arrest | ||
| b. showing or having a tendency to teach, preach, or moralize. | ||
| c. to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage. | ||
| d. a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism |
| ______ | 16. | desist |
| a. to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage. | ||
| b. to stop acting in a certain way. | ||
| c. not the straightest, most direct way; winding; roundabout. |
| ______ | 17. | dictum |
| a. to discourage or restrain from acting or proceeding | ||
| b. to stop acting in a certain way. | ||
| c. a saying; maxim. |
| ______ | 18. | devious |
| a. a bitter, sharply abusive denunciation, attack, or criticism | ||
| b. departing from the proper or accepted way; roundabout | ||
| c. to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage. |
| ______ | 19. | deter |
| a. the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation. | ||
| b. to prevent; check; arrest | ||
| c. to lay waste; render desolate | ||
| d. to prevent from going on; stop or delay. |
| ______ | 20. | diction |
| a. in the physical sciences, to cause to become mixed and evenly distributed as a result of movement toward regions of lower concentration; scatter; disperse. | ||
| b. way of pronouncing words; enunciation. | ||
| c. Mil. to send away (a regiment, ship, etc.) on a special mission. |
| ______ | 21. | detach |
| a. to unfasten and separate; disengage; disunite. | ||
| b. to hate or feel contempt for. | ||
| c. a formal or official pronouncement, as of a judge's opinion on a point of law. |
| ______ | 22. | dialogue |
| a. to separate from some whole. | ||
| b. conversation between two or more persons. | ||
| c. to upset greatly; have an overwhelming effect on. | ||
| d. deprived of, devoid of, or lacking (often fol. by of ) |
| ______ | 23. | devastate |
| a. to hate; loathe. | ||
| b. to lay waste; render desolate | ||
| c. to strip of possessions, things of value, etc.; rob; plunder; pillage. |
| ______ | 24. | deteriorate |
| a. to leave destitute. | ||
| b. to make or become worse or inferior in character, quality, value, etc. | ||
| c. intended for instruction; instructive |
| ______ | 25. | dignitary |
| a. a person who holds a high rank or office, as in the government or church. | ||
| b. to stray from normal or accepted behavior. | ||
| c. to pour out and spread, as a fluid. |