Webster Essential Vocabulary

• Cara deniedthe charge that she had cheated on her diet.


• Evan did not denyhaving cheated on Mary but claimed that she had cheat-
  ed on him first.


• Ian deniedhaving painted the big mural outside the store.


• Ryan was forced to denySophie use of the handicapped parking space on
  the grounds that she wasn’t handicapped.
  •I deny all of you access to the ice cream in my freezer.


• I also must denyyour request for parole.
  [denied, -ing, denial n.]
  depict(di PIKT) vt.1. to portray; to represent in a painting, drawing, sculpture,
  etc.; 2. to describe; to picture in words


• Leonardo DaVinci’s Last Supper depictsa Passover seder.


• A portrait artist will depict a likeness of you, for a fee.


• The sports section of today’s newspaper depictsa detailed account of yester-
  day’s games, artfully drawn in words.
  [-ed, -ing, -ion n.]
  deplore(di PLAWR) vt.1. to be sorry about; to regret; lament; 2. to regard as
  unfortunate or awful; 3. to disapprove of; to condemn as wrong


• My neighbor’s mother deploresthe day he was born.


• Any feeling individual must deplorethe conditions in which the urban
  homeless are condemned to live.


• The whole world deploresthe lack of safety measures that were in place at
  Chernobyl’s nuclear power plant.
  [-d, deploring]

Quick Review #25.

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

D: SAT Words 77

1. defiant


2. deficit


3. define


4. deleterious


5. demagogue


6. demeanor


7. democracy


8. demonstrate


9. denounce


10. deny


11. depict


12. deplore

a. prove

b. lament

c. bearing

d. reject

e. criticize

f. portray

g. lack

h. pernicious

i. popular rule

j. rebellious

k. rabble-rouser

l. delineate