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SAT Words 23
of 1000
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| demagogue | (n.) a leader who appeals to a people’s prejudices (The _____strengthened his hold over his people by blaming immigrants for the lack of jobs.) |
| demarcation | (n.) the marking of boundaries or categories (Different cultures have different _____s of good and evil.) |
| demean | (v.) to lower the status or stature of something (She refused to _____her secretary by making him order her lunch.) |
| demure | (adj.) quiet, modest, reserved (Though everyone else at the party was dancing and going crazy, she remained _____.) |
| denigrate | (v.) to belittle, diminish the opinion of (The company decided that its advertisements would no longer _____ the company’s competitors.) |
| denounce | (v.) to criticize publicly (The senator _____d her opponent as a greedy politician.) |
| deplore | (v.) to feel or express sorrow, disapproval (We all _____d the miserable working conditions in the factory.) |
| depravity | (n.) wickedness (Rumors of the ogre’s _____ made the children afraid to enter the forest.) |
| deprecate | (v.) to belittle, depreciate (Always over-modest, he _____d his contribution to the local charity.) |
| derelict | (adj.) abandoned, run-down (Even though it was dangerous, the children enjoyed going to the deserted lot and playing in the _____ house.) |
| deride | (v.) to laugh at mockingly, scorn (The bullies _____d the foreign student’s accent.) |
| derivative | (adj.) taken directly from a source, unoriginal (She was bored by his music because she felt that it was _____ and that she had heard it before.) |
| desecrate | (v.) to violate the sacredness of a thing or place (They feared that the construction of a golf course would _____ the preserved wilderness.) |
| desiccated | (adj.) dried up, dehydrated (The skin of the _____ mummy looked like old paper.) |
| desolate | (adj.) deserted, dreary, lifeless (She found the _____ landscape quite a contrast to the hustle and bustle of the overcrowded city.) |
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