All terms in this list:

deride: To harshly mock; ridicule.

desiccated: dried

despicable: Fit or deserving to be despised; contemptible; mean; vile; worthless

desultory: Jumping, or passing, from one thing or subject to another, without order or rational connection; without logical sequence; disconnected; immethodical; aimless.

deviate: To fall outside of, or part from, some norm; to stray.

diadem: A crown.

diaphanous: Of a fine, almost transparent texture, as eg. gossamer.

dichotomy: A cutting in two; a division.

ebullient: boiling, agitated, enthusiastic

eclectic: Selecting a mixture of what appear to be best of various doctrines, methods or styles.

edify: To instruct or improve morally or intellectually.

effete: Lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.

egregious: Outrageously bad.

elegy: A mournful or plaintive poem; a funeral song; a poem of lamentation.

elicit: To draw out, bring out, bring forth (something latent); to obtain information from someone or something.