| A | B |
| desist | (verb) to cease; to stop doing something |
| defray | (verb) to furnish money for; to pay costs or expense for |
| desecrate | (verb) to treat something sacred without respect |
| degenerate | (noun) a person having low moral standards; (verb) to decline in physial, mental, or moral qualities; (adj) deteriorated |
| delineate | (verb) to draw an outline of; to sketch out; to portray |
| dereliction | (noun) abandonment; desertion |
| depreciate | (verb) to lessen in value or in price; to belittle |
| demeanor | (noun) outward behavior |
| deprecate | (verb) to express strong disapproval of something |
| denote | (verb) to be a sign of; to indicate |