Camouflage : Leaf tailed Gecko.
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D
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Dance or musical
performance
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Recital
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Dangers or
problems that are hidden or not obvious at first
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Pitfall
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Dark and dirty :
not fresh or clean
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Dingy
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Dark and
underground prisons in castles
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Dungeon
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Date or time when
something must be finished : the last day, hour, or minute on that something
will be accepted
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Deadline
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Days when day and
night are of the same length
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Equinox
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Dead bodies of
animals
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Carcass
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Dead persons who
leave the grave at night to bite and suck the blood of living people
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Vampire
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Decayed mixture
of plants (such as leaves and grass) that is used to improve the soil in a
garden
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Compost
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Decayed with
usually a very bad or disgusting smell
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Putrid
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Deceiving or to
trick (someone) to persuade (someone) by telling lies
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Con(v)
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Deep unconscious
state, usually lasting a long time and caused by serious illness or injury
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Coma
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Deep, wet sand
into which heavy objects sink easily
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Quicksand
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Deeply religious
: devoted to a particular religion
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Devout
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Defeating
(someone or something) easily and Throughly
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Trounce
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Defeating and
gaining control of (someone or something) by the use of force
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Subjugate
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Defeating or
tricking (someone) by being more intelligent or clever
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Outsmart
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Delay doing
something until a later time because one does not want to do it, because one
is lazy
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Procrastinate
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Describing
(someone or something) as unimportant, weak, bad, etc
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Disparage
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Designed or
intended to teach people something
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Didactic
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Desire to cause
harm to another person
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Malice
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Determined not to
change one's opinion or attitude; difficult to deal with, remove, etc.
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Stubborn
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Developing
friendlier relations between countries or groups of people who have been
enemies
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Rapprochement
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Dictionary of the
special terms in a particular field or job
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Glossary
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Die because one
is unable to breathe
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Suffocate
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Difference
between two opposite things : a division into two opposite groups
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Dichotomy
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Difference
especially between things that should be the same
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Discrepancy
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Difficult and
unpleasant to do or deal with
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Onerous
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Difficult to
handle, control, or deal with because of being large, heavy, or complex
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Unwieldy
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Difficult to
understand : having or seeming to have a hidden meaning
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Cryptic
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Dilemma or
difficult circumstances from which there is no escape because of mutually
conflicting or dependent conditions
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Catch 22
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Direct descent
from an ancestor; ancestry or pedigree
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Lineage
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Disappointing end
to an exciting or impressive series of events
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Anticlimax
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Disease or
disorder that involves a particular group of signs and symptoms
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Syndrome
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Disease that
spreads over a whole country or the whole world
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Pandemic
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Disguising of
military personnel, equipment, and installations by painting or covering them
to make them blend in with their surrounding
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Camouflage
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Dishonest or
immoralpersons
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Sleaze
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Displaying
wealth, knowledge, etc., in a way that is meant to attract attention,
admiration, or envy
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Ostentatious
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Distance of a
place east or west of the Greenwich meridian, measured in degrees
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Longitude
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Distance of a
place north or south of the equator (= the line around the world dividing
north and south), measured in degrees
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Latitude
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Doing activities
for fun or enjoyment
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Play off
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Doing better than
(someone or something) : to be more successful than (someone or something)
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Outdo
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Doing something
that is not allowed : to disobey a command or law
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Transgress
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Doctor's opinion
about how someone will recover from an illness or injury
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Prognosis
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Done or given
because one wants to and not because one is forced to
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Voluntary
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Dramatic works in
which all or most of the words are sung to music; works of this type as an
art form or entertainment
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Opera
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Drawing or
pictures that show only the shape of an object
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Outline
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Dull and ordinary
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Mundane
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Dull or socially
ineptperson, especially someone who is excessively studious
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Spod
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