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Daily: 1. Occurring or done each day 2. Occurring every day or measured by the day 3. Without missing a day 4. Without missing a day

Dangerous: 1. Involving or causing danger or risk; liable to hurt or harm 2. Causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

Deceit: 1. The quality of being fraudulent 2. A misleading falsehood

Deception: 1. A misleading falsehood 2. The act of deceiving 3. An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

Decision: 1. The act of making up your mind about something 2. A position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration

Decisively: 1. With firmness 2. With finality; conclusively 3. In an indisputable degree

Declaration: 1. Emphatic or explicit statement

Declare: 1. State clearly 2. Announce officially 3. State firmly 4. Make known to the public information that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret

Decline: 1. Change toward something smaller or lower 2. A condition inferior to an earlier condition 3. A gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current 4. A downward slope 5. Refuse to accept 6. Show unwillingness towards 7.

Defame: 1. Charge falsely or with malicious intent; attack the good name and reputation of someone

Defects: 1. A failing or deficiency 2. An imperfection in a bodily system 3. A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)

Defiant: 1. Boldly resisting authority or an opposing force

Deficiency: 1. The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable 2. Lack of an adequate quantity or number

Define: 1. Determine the essential quality of 2. Give a definition for the meaning of a word 3. Determine the nature of 4. Delineate the form or outline of

Deflate: 1. Collapse by releasing contained air or gas 2. Release contained air or gas from 3. Reduce or lessen the size or importance of 4. Produce deflation in 5. Reduce or cut back the amount or availability of, creating a decline in value or prices 6. Become deflated or flaccid, as by losing air

Degradation: 1. Changing to a lower state (a less respected state) 2. A low or downcast state

Deliberate: 1. Think about carefully; weigh 2. Discuss the pros and cons of an issue 3. Consider carefully and deeply; reflect upon; turn over in one's mind 4. By conscious design or purpose 5. With care and dignity 6. With care and dignity 7. With care and dignity 8. Produced or marked by conscious design or premeditation 9. Marked by careful consideration or reflection 10. Carefully thought out in advance

Delicate: 1. Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing; susceptible to injury 2. Marked by great skill especially in meticulous technique 3. Easily broken or damaged or destroyed 4. Easily hurt 5. Developed with extreme delicacy and subtlety 6. Difficult to handle; requiring great tact 7. Of an instrument or device; capable of registering minute differences or changes precisely

Delusion; 1. An erroneous belief that is held in the face of evidence to the contrary 2. A mistaken opinion or idea

Demolition: 1. An event that destroys something 2. The act of destroying something

Demonstrate: 1. Show or demonstrate something to an interested audience 2. Establish the validity of something 3. Give a demonstration of 4. Provide evidence for; stand as proof of 5. March in protest; take part in a demonstration 6. Reveal

Demoralization:.1 Destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy 2. A state of disorder and confusion 3. Depression resulting from an undermining of your morale

Denial: 1.An assertion that something alleged is not true 2. A defense mechanism that denies painful thoughts 3. Renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others 4. Part of our disease that makes it difficult, if not impossible, for us to acknowledge reality (It work How & Why Pg.7) 5. Is part of our disease that tells us we don’t have a disease (Step Working Guides Pg.2)

Deny: 1. Declare untrue; contradict 2. Refuse to accept or believe 3. Refuse to grant, as of a petition or request 3. Refuse to let have 4. Restrain, esp. from indulging in some pleasure 5. Refuse to recognize or acknowledge

Depend: 1. Be contingent on 2. Rely on

Dependent: 1. A person who relies on another person for support (especially financial support) 2. Contingent on something else 3. Being under the power or sovereignty of another or others 4. Addicted to a drug

Depravity: 1. Moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles 2. A corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice

Depression: 1. A mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity 2. Sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy 3. A state of sadness and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention 4. Pushing down

Deprive: 1. Take away all material possessions from someone 2. Keep from having, keeping, or obtaining 3. Take away

Derelict: 1. A person unable to support himself 2. A ship abandoned on the high seas 3. Deserted or abandoned as by an owner 4. Failing in what duty requires

Dereliction: 1. A tendency to be negligent and uncaring 2. Willful negligence

Design: 1. The act of working out the form of something (as by making a sketch or outline or plan) 2. An arrangement scheme 3. Something intended as a guide for making something else 4. A decorative or artistic work 5. An anticipated outcome that is intended or guides your planned actions 6. A preliminary sketch indicating the plan for something 7. The creation of something in the mind 8. Make or work out a plan for; devise 9. Design something for a specific role or purpose or effect 10. Create the design for; create or execute in an artistic or highly skilled manner 11. Make a design of; plan out in systematic, often graphic form 12. Conceive or fashion in the mind; invent 13. Intend or have as a purpose

Desire: 1. The feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state 2. An inclination to want things 3. Something that is desired

Despair: 1. A state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly 2. The feeling that everything is wrong and nothing will turn out well 3. Abandon hope; give up hope; lose heart

Desperation: 1. A state in which everything seems wrong and will turn out badly 2. Desperate recklessness 3. What finally drives many of us to ask for help. (Just For Today Pg.208)

Destruction: 1 Termination by an act of destruction 2. An event that destroys something 3. A final state

Develop: 1. Termination by an act of destruction 2. An event that destroys something 3. A final state.

Devotion: 1. Feelings of ardent love 2. Commitment to some purpose 3. Religious zeal; willingness to serve God 4. religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently)

Dictate: 1. An authoritative rule 2. A guiding principle 3. Issue commands or orders for 4. Read out loud for the purpose of recording 5. Rule as a dictator

Dilemma: 1. State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options

Dimension: 1. A measure of the size of something in a particular direction especially length or width or height 2. A construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished 3. One of three coordinates that determine a position in space 4. Magnitude or extent 5. Indicate the dimensions on 6. Shape or form to required dimensions

Diminished: 1. Decrease in size, extent, or range 2. Lessen the authority, dignity, or reputation of 3. Impaired by diminution 4. Made to seem smaller or less (especially in worth)

Direct: 1. Intend (something) to move towards a certain goal 2. Command with authority 3.Be in charge of 4. Lead 5. Give directions to; point somebody into a certain direction 6. Immediate or direct in bearing or force; having nothing intervening 7. Extended senses; direct in means or manner or behavior or language or action 8. As an immediate result or consequence 9. Exact 10. Without deviation

Direction: 1. A general course along which something has a tendency to develop 2. advice as to a decision or course of action 3. A message describing how something is to be done 4. The act of setting and holding a course

Directory: 1. An alphabetical list of names and addresses

Disagreement: 1. A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters 2. A difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions 3. The speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing

Disaster: 1. A state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune 2. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune 3. An act that has disastrous consequences

Discipline: 1. A branch of knowledge 2. A system of rules of conduct or method of practice 3. The trait of being well behaved 4. Training to improve strength or self-control 5. The act of punishing 6. Train by instruction and practice; esp. to teach self-control 7. Punish in order to gain control or enforce obedience

Disclosure: 1. Making something evident

Discretion: 1. Freedom to act or judge on one's own 2. Knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress 3. The trait of judging wisely and objectively 4. The power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies 5. The trait of judging wisely and objectively

Disease: 1. An impairment of health or a condition of abnormal functioning

Dishonesty: 1. The quality of being dishonest 2. Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

Disillusion: 1. Freeing from false belief or illusions 2. Free from enchantment

Dismay: 1. The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles 2. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger 3. Lower someone's spirits; make downhearted 4. Fill with apprehension or alarm

Disqualify: 1. Make unfit or unsuitable 2. Declare unfit

Distinct: 1. (often followed by 'from') not alike; different in nature or quality 2. Easy to perceive; especially clearly outlined 3. Constituting a separate entity or part 4. Recognizable; marked 5. Clearly or sharply defined to the mind

Distinction: 1. A discrimination made between things as different 2. High status importance owing to marked superiority 3. A distinguishing quality 4. A distinguishing difference

Distinctly: 1. Clear to the mind; with distinct mental discernment 2. In a distinct and distinguishable manner 3. To a distinct degree

Distort: 1. Make false by mutilation or addition; as of a message or story 2. Alter the shape of (something) by stress 3. Spoil the appearance of

Distracting: 1. Draw someone's attention away from something 2. Disturb in mind or make uneasy or cause to be worried or alarmed

Distraction: 1. Mental turmoil 2. An obstacle to attention 3. An entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations 4. The act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something

Distribute: 1. Administer or bestow, as in small portions 2. Distribute or disperse widely 3. Make available 4. Give out freely 5. Cause to be distributed 6. As of information 7. To arrange in a stack or pile

Disturbing: 1. Move deeply 2. Change the arrangement or position of 3. Tamper with 3. Destroy the peace or tranquility of 4. Damage as if by shaking or jarring 5. Causing distress or worry or anxiety

Diverse: 1. Many and different 2. Distinctly dissimilar or unlike

Diversity: 1. The condition or result of being variable

Divert: 1. Turn aside; turn away from 2. Send on a course or in a direction different from the planned or intended one 3. Occupy in an agreeable, entertaining or pleasant fashion

Divine: 1. Perceive intuitively or through some inexplicable perceptive powers 2. Discover intuitively 3. Emanating from God 4. Being or having the nature of a god

Divorce: 1. The legal dissolution of a marriage 2. Part; cease or break association with 3. Get a divorce; formally terminate a marriage

Dogma: 1. A religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof 2. A doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative

Dominated: 1. Be larger in number, quantity, or importance 2. Be in control; Have dominance over 3. Look down on 4. Controlled or ruled by superior authority or power 5. Harassed by persistent nagging

Dream: 1. A series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep 2. Imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake 3. A cherished desire 4. A fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe) 5. A state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality 6. Someone of something wonderful 7. Have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy 8. Experience while sleeping

Dues: 1. That which is deserved or owed 2. A payment that is due (e.g., as the price of membership)

Dynamic: 1. An efficient incentive 2. Characterized by action or forcefulness or force of personality