LINCS Devices: Life on the Mississippi

Question 1

Collusion (n.)

Answer 1

Secret or illegal cooperation or conspiracy, especially in order to cheat or deceive others

Question 2

Confederate (n.)

Answer 2

A person one works with in something secret or illegal; an accomplice

Question 3

Credulity (n.)

Answer 3

A tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true

Question 4

Dissemble (v.)

Answer 4

Conceal one’s true motives, feelings, or beliefs

Question 5

Gullible (adj.)

Answer 5

Easily persuaded to believe something; credulous

Question 6

Implacable (adj.)

Answer 6

Unable to made less angry or hostile

Question 7

Odious (adj.)

Answer 7

Extremely unpleasant; repulsive

Question 8

Rapt (adj.)

Answer 8

Completely fascinated by what one is seeing or hearing

Question 9

Unassailable (adj.)

Answer 9

Unable to be attacked, questioned, or defeated

Question 10

Usurping (v.)

Answer 10

Take a position of power or importance illegally or by force