Week ? (5 terms)

Question 1

petulant

Answer 1

childishly sulky or bad-tempered

“he acted like a petulant child who had been refused what he wanted”

Question 2

galvanizing

Answer 2

shock or excite (someone) into taking action.

“the campaign is galvanizing people into action”

Question 3

promulgate

Answer 3

promote or make widely known (an idea or cause).

“Your state may announce a plan to promulgate a new traffic law on January 1st.”

Question 4

phlegmatic

Answer 4

(of a person) having an unemotional and stolidly calm disposition.

“As a football player, his great asset was his calm, phlegmatic manner.”

Question 5

banal

Answer 5

so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

“He made some obviously banal remarks about the weather.”