Words about words

Something is delicious if it smells or tastes really, really good. People would describe something as delicious if they really enjoyed eating it.

Something is dense if the parts that make it up are very close together. For example, the bamboo forest in the picture is very dense. Materials that are very dense are typically heavier, for example the same volume of lead is heavier than wood.
The opposite of dense is sparse.

Destroyed is the past tense of destroy.

A detour is a path taken that goes out of the way of your usual path. Detours are usually set up when there is some obstacle and there needs to be a way around it.
Used as a verb, it simply means you are taking a detour, for example "I am going to detour past the shops on my way home".

A line is diagonal if it is not straight up and down relative to things around it, or not horizontal or vertical. Diagonal lines are at an angle.

Two things are different if they are not like each other, or can very easily be told apart. The purple flower in the picture is very different to all the red ones.
The opposite of different is similar.

Digging is where you use a spade or your hands (or your paws if you are a dog) to move sand or dirt around. Usually you dig to make a hole.
The boy in the picture is helping to dig a vegetable garden.
The past tense of dig is dug.

Something is dilated if it has become bigger or wider. The eye in the picture is dilated.

Diminutive means something small or lesser in size or importance. It can also mean using a shorter or softer form of a word.

You often see diminutives in names, like "Cassie" instead of "Cassandra."

Dined is the past tense of dine, for example "we dined on lobster last night".