Set 15

Question 0

Intransigent

Answer 0

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

Question 1

Disinterested

Answer 1

[adj] not influenced by considerations of personal advantage

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

Question 2

Inundate

Answer 2

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

“we’ve been inundated with complaints from listeners”

Question 3

Obviate

Answer 3

[v] remove (a need or difficulty)

“the Venetian blinds obviated the need for curtains”

Question 4

Perfidy

Answer 4

[n] deceitfulness; untrustworthiness.

Question 5

Placate

Answer 5

[v] make (someone) less angry or hostile

“they attempted to placate the students with promises”

Question 6

Precipitate

Answer 6

[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”

Question 7

Proliferate

Answer 7

[v] increase rapidly in numbers; multiply

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

Question 8

Propagate

Answer 8

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

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

Question 9

Rarefy

Answer 9

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