Middle School Vocabulary (words that start with D)
Across
- 2. Any of various small toothed whales with the snout more or less elongated into a beak and the neck vertebrae partially fused.
- 3. Performance of a musical composition or movement by two singers or two instrumentalists.
- 5. A scarce supply.
- 6. Hard to understand; puzzling.
- 9. To authorize and send as one’s representative or agent.
- 10. Marked by or exhibiting sorrow, grief, or pain.
- 11. Relating to the household or the family.
- 12. Devoid of inhabitants; deserted.
- 13. Utter loss of hope.
- 15. Having lost all hope; despairing.
- 17. A dead person; especially a person who has recently died.
- 18. A transgressor against duty or law.
Down
- 1. Completely dissimilar.
- 2. To express polite refusal.
- 3. A succession of rulers from the same family or line.
- 4. To divert by advice or persuasion.
- 5. To scatter or spread widely, as though sowing seed; promulgate extensively; broadcast; disperse.
- 7. To deceive the mind or judgment of.
- 8. To make less concentrated; diminish the strength, activity, or flavor of.
- 9. Lacking or marked by a lack of self-confidence; shy and timid.
- 10. Able to exist for a long time; lasting.
- 12. To spend time idly.
- 14. Dishonest.
- 15. Power of decision; individual judgment.
- 16. A roundabout way or course, especially a road used temporarily instead of a main route.