| Abate | To reduce in intensity or amount |
| Amity | Friendship |
| Auspicious | Favorable |
| Baseness | The quality of lacking higher values |
| Bedlam | A place or scene of wild and mad uproar; an extremely confusing scene |
| Beguile | To deceive, to mislead, to persuade with charm |
| Bestow | To grant or to give |
| Clamor | Loud noise or shouting |
| Contentious | Quarrelsome, stirring controversy |
| Credulous | Believing on slight evidence, gullible |
| Debauchery | Moral corruption |
| Defile | To make dirty, to desecrate to pollute |
| Degeneration | A state of decline |
| Depravity | Moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act |
| Derision | Scoffing at, mockery, ridicule |
| Deffidense | Shyness, reserve, unassertiveness |
| Diffuse | To spread in all directions |
| Diligent | Characterized by steady, attentive and energetic effort in pursuit or study |
| Discern | To differentiate between two or more things |
| Disdain | Intense dislike; to treat with scorn or contempt, to reject as unworthy |
King Lear definitions #1-#20
July 5, 2019