The golf team tried to avoid the football team because the football players always told the golfers their sport was boring and less important. A. Belittle
B. Assured
C. Ambition

Belittled

The football players are telling the golfers that their sport is uninteresting. They are making it sound like golf is inferior is useless. This is closest to the word belittle.

Explanation:

in "people in peace, not profit and war" chrisholm uses inductive reasoning for her argument against defense spending by stating that the new administration, like most americans, wanted to invest in social objectives, so they must not want to prioritize defense spending. mr. nixon said "we can delay no longer in launching new approaches to the problem that beset them", but chrisholm points out that the programs were delayed anyways.