; Marcella Ducasses: D - Daily Word Dose

Saturday 4 June 2011

D - Daily Word Dose

Despondent - Feeling or showing profound hopelessness, dejection, discouragement or gloom: He was despondent when his business failed.

Dexterity - 1. Skill or adroitness in using the hands or body; agility: He caught the ball with dexterity; She played the piano with dexterity  2. Mental adroitness or skill; cleverness.

Dichotomy - 1. Division into two parts, kinds, etc; subdivision into halves or pairs: The ongoing debate of nature vs nurture  2. division into two mutually exclusive, opposed or contradictory groups: There is a dichotomy between the character's true self and his public persona; The dichotomy between thought and action is profound.

Dissipate 1. To scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel: The clouds began to dissipate after the storm; He watched her anger dissipate into a profound sense of relief as the truth finally sank in  2. To spend or use wastefully or extravagantly; squander; deplete: To dissipate one's talents; She dissipates a fortune on monthly spa treatments.

Dumbstruck - 1. Temporarily deprived of the power of speech; as by surprise of confusion; dumbfounded: The teacher slapped him! I was dumbstruck.

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