Set 15 Flashcards

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Intransigent

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[adj] unwilling or refusing to change one’s views or to agree about something

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Disinterested

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[adj] not influenced by considerations of personal advantage

“a banker is under an obligation to give disinterested advice”

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Inundate

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[v] overwhelm (someone) with things or people to be dealt with

“we’ve been inundated with complaints from listeners”

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Obviate

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[v] remove (a need or difficulty)

“the Venetian blinds obviated the need for curtains”

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Perfidy

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[n] deceitfulness; untrustworthiness.

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Placate

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[v] make (someone) less angry or hostile

“they attempted to placate the students with promises”

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Precipitate

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[v] cause (an event or situation, typically one that is bad or undesirable) to happen suddenly, unexpectedly, or prematurely

“the incident precipitated a political crisis”

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Proliferate

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[v] increase rapidly in numbers; multiply

“the science fiction magazines that proliferated in the 1920s”

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Propagate

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spread and promote (an idea, theory, etc.) widely

“the French propagated the idea that the English were violent and gluttonous drunkards”

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Rarefy

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[v] to make something, especially a gas, less dense, or become less dense

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