Webster Essential Vocabulary

Quick Review #24.

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

D: SAT Words 75

1. damage


2. daze


3. debacle


4. debatable


5. debunk


6. deceive


7. decibel


8. decline


9. decorous


10. defend


11. deferment

a. refuse

b. protect

c. mislead

d. appropriate

e. loudness

f. postponement

g. injure

h. arguable

i. failure

j. expose

k. stupor

defiant (di FY int) adj.full of angry resistance; openly and boldly resisting (in
spite of opposition)

• The men defending the Alamo were defiantin the face of Santa Ana’s over-
  whelmingly superior numbers.


• Rosa Parks sparked civil rights awareness by being defiantof the “Blacks
  ride in the back” convention of the day.
  [-ly adv., defiance n.]
  deficit (DEF i sit) n.the amount of money less than the necessary amount; hav-
  ing more liabilities than assets, losses than profits, or expenditures than income


• The U.S. government almost always has a financial deficit.


• Those in the high-tech sector of the stock market experienced a severe
  deficitat the opening of the twenty-first century.
  define(di FYN) vt.1. to state or set down the boundaries of; to delineate; 2. to
  determine or state the nature or extent of; 3. to differentiate; 4. to state the mean-
  ing or meanings of a word (like we’re doing here)


• A couple needs to definewhat will be expected of each before rushing
  blindly into a marriage.


• Mr. Smedley, our head of sales, will now definewhat your job here will be.


• Never definea word by using that word in the definition.
  [-d, defining, definition n.]
  deleterious(DEL it ir ee uhss) adj. bad for health or well-being; injurious;
  harmful


• Smoking cigarettes is deleteriousto everyone’s health, not just the smoker’s.


• An infestation of locusts can have a deleteriouseffect on a farmer’s crops.
  [-ly adv.,-ness n.] [Syn. pernicious]