Complete the sentence: 'Public health authorities noted that adherence to hygiene measures served to ______ the spread of infectious disease.'
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. mitigate
- Step 1: Hygiene measures are designed to lessen or reduce disease transmission. Step 2. 'Mitigate' means to make less severe, serious, or painful. Answer: mitigate. Why not the others: 'Accelerate' and 'propagate' mean to increase or spread; 'instigate' means to initiate or provoke.
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