Vocabulary English-English With D Part 4
Dizzying (adjective)
vastly exceeding the normal limit, as in cost
- Driven by dizzying mutations in medical costs, program directors and staff ponder the disruptive dynamism of these new reforms.
Doctorate (adjective)
any degree at the highest level awarded by universities
- A student intending to teach and conduct sociological research will most likely need a master’s or a doctorate degree.
Document (verb)
anything serving as proof
- Although explosive eruptions at Kilauea are infrequent, deposits of ash discovered by United States Geological Survey and other scientists document that they actually occur about as often as explosive eruptions from volcanoes in the Cascade Range of the Pacific Northwest, which includes Mount St. Helens, Washington.
Doggedly (adverb)
with firm perseverance; with irrational determination of fixity of purpose
- The attack pushed most Union divisions back to reform elsewhere. Others fought doggedly to hold their line.
Domesticate (verb)
to train to live with and be of use to man
- The single-humped Arabian camel has been domesticated for more than 5,000 years.
Dominant (adjective)
most important, influential, or significant
- The abuse memories contained within alters are not typically accessible to the dominant personality.
Dormant (adjective)
in a state of temporary inactivity
- Farther north of Stovepipe Wells is more salt pan and a dormant volcanic area which includes Ubehebe Crater.
Downdraft (noun)
a downward air current
- The strength of intense downdrafts that emerge from Rocky Mountain storms can stir up severe weather downstream.
Downpour (noun)
a heavy rain
- The scientists found that one downpour leads to another. In effect, they were able to pinpoint the culprit of these torrential rains in the Midwest.
Downsizing (noun)
the act of reducing in size
- I managed to survive two rounds of corporate downsizing, but the third round was a 20 percent reduction in the workforce, which included me."
Down slope (noun)
moving from place of higher elevation to a place of lower elevation
- In spring, the built up snow melts and runs down slope into brooks. These brooks flow down and join a river.
Downstream (noun)
in the direction of the flow of water running along the surface of the earth; in the direction of the flow of something
- The strength of intense downdrafts that emerge from the mountain storms can stir up severe weather downstream.
Drainage (noun)
the act, the process, or method for carrying off waster matter
- Human activities which act to further destabilizing slopes are logging, woodland conversion, road building, housing construction, and any activity which alters normal drainage patterns.
Dramatic (adjective)
filled with action, emotion, or exciting qualities
- Gases trapped in ice cores show the dramatic impact that human activities have had on the planet since the Industrial Revolution.
Drilling (verb)
to do or perform repeatedly so as to master
- At the Union camp at Shiloh, the Federal troops spent a day drilling and merry making.
Driven (verb)
to fix an idea in someone’s mind by emphasis and repetition
- Driven by an intense need to characterize the traditions of the South, the writer sometimes depicts his characters as vulnerable, ill-informed, and racist.
Drought (noun)
a prolonged or chronic shortage or lack of something, especially water
- A serious Midwestern drought during the 1930's devastated many farmers’ crops.
Drunkenness (noun)
given to habitual excessive use of alcohol of, relating to, or characterized by intoxication
- The immediate physical effects of drinking alcohol range from mild mood changes to complete loss of coordination, vision, balance, and speech any of which can be signals of the temporary systemic poisoning known as acute alcohol intoxication, or drunkenness.
Dusk (noun)
the period between afternoon and nighttime
- It is recommended that a driver turn his lights on at the first signs of dusk.
Dwarf (verb)
to make extremely small
- Given that is has snowed 35 inches in less than two days, this blizzard dwarfs any other storm that we have ever seen in our state.
Dwellings (noun)
a building or shelter where one lives
- Many ancient Native American dwellings were built within the cliffs of the Grand Canyon in Northern Arizona.
Dye (noun)
something that gives color
- Ancient peoples used fermentation to make beer and used plants to produce dyes and medicines.
Dynamism (noun)
the quality of being energetic, vigorous
- Driven by dizzying mutations in medical costs, program directors and staff ponder the disruptive dynamism of these new reforms.
Dysfunction (noun)
abnormal, impaired, or incomplete functioning, as of a body organ or part
- Victims may have a predisposition to mood disorders which can be heightened by dysfunctions in family life.
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