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discord, n. dissonance, discordance, inharmony, variance, dissension.
Antonyms: harmony, agreement, consonance

discordant, a. inharmonious, dissonant, jarring, unmelodious
strident; at variance, contradictory, repugnant absonant.

discount, n. deduction, allowance, rebate.

discourage, v. dishearten, dispirit, depress, deter, dampen, unnerve,
oppose, dissuade.

discouragement, n. depression, dejection; opposition, dissuasion,
intimidation, determent, damper, obstacle, difficulty, barrier.

discouraging, a. depressing, disheartening, dissuasive.

discourse, n. dissertation, address, disquisition, oration, harangue,
speech.

discourteous, a. uncivil, rude, disrespectful, abrupt, unmannerly,
boorish, inurbane.

discourtesy, n. rudeness, incivility, inurbanity, impoliteness.

discover, v. ascertain, detect, unearth, descry, discern, disclose,
ferret out.

discovery, n. ascertainment, detection, unearthing, disclosure.

discredit, n. disesteem, disrepute, unpopularity.

discreet, a. prudent, circumspect, wary, judicious.

discretion, n. prudence, circumspection, wariness; choice, liberty,
will. Antonyms: indiscretion, imprudence, compulsion, constraint,
coercion.

discretional, a. optional, discretionary, elective. Antonyms:
compulsory, obligatory.

discriminating, a. distinguishing, differential, discriminative.

discrimination, n. difference, distinction, discernment, judgment.
Antonyms: indiscrimination, promiscuity, undiscernment.

discuss, v. debate, argue, canvass, agitate, moot, deliberate.

discussion, n. debate, argument, canvass, agitation, consideration,
symposium, forensic.

disdain, n. scorn, contumely, superciliousness, contempt.

disdainful, a. contemptuous, scornful, contumelious, supercilious.

disease, n. ailment, disorder, malady, complaint, affection,
distemper; plague, pestilence, pest; epidemic, endemic. Antonyms:
health, vigor. Associated Words: nosology, nosography, etiology,
nosogeny, pathology, pathologist, pathological, pathogeny, therapeutics,
symptomatology, diagnosis, pathognomonic, diagnostics, semeiology,
semeiography, clinic, polyclinic, prognosis, contagion, infection,
contagious, infectious, zoonosology, enantiopathy, loimography, loimology,
quarantine, pathogene, germ, microbe, bacteria, bacillus, incubation.

diseased, a. morbid, unhealthful.

disembowel, v. eviscerate, gut.

disembowelment, n. evisceration.

disengage, v. extricate, disembarrass, di