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Question 1

ingeneous

Answer 1

D. clever; original

Question 2

ingenuous

Answer 2

D. candid; frank

Question 3

ingrate

\ˈin-ˌgrāt\

Answer 3

D. an ungrateful person

Question 4

ingratiate

\in-ˈgrā-shē-ˌāt\

Answer 4

D. to win another’s favor by efforts

E. ingratiate themselves with the community leaders

Question 5

inherent

Answer 5

D. innate; characteristic

Question 6

infibit

Answer 6

D. to hold back or repress

Question 7

inimical

\i-ˈni-mi-kəl\

Answer 7

D. hostile; in opposition

E. laws designed to enhance national security that some regard as inimical to cherished freedoms

Question 8

iniquitous

Answer 8

D. wicked

E. zero tolerance at the academy for cheating and other iniquitous practices

Question 9

injunction

Answer 9

D. an official order given by a court which demands that something must or must not be done

E. in the cult there were injunctions for and against everything, as nothing was a matter of personal choice

Question 10

innate

Answer 10

D. existing from birth

Question 11

innocuous

Answer 11

D. not harmful

Question 12

innuendo

\ˌin-yə-ˈwen-(ˌ)dō\

Answer 12

D. an indirect remark or reference

E. The movie relies on sexual innuendo for its humor.

Question 13

inordinate

\in-ˈȯr-dən-ət\

Answer 13

D. unregulated; immoderate, exceeding

E. I waited an inordinate amount of time.

Question 14

inscrutable

\in-ˈskrü-tə-bəl\

Answer 14

D. obscure; not easily understood

E. He was a quiet, inscrutable man.

Question 15

insensate

(ˌ)in-ˈsen-ˌsāt, -sət\

Answer 15

D. not feeling; inanimate

E. the belief that God is immanent in all things, even insensate objects

Question 16

insidious

\in-ˈsi-dē-əs\

Answer 16

D. crafty

E. Most people with this insidious disease have no idea that they are infected.

Question 17

insinuate

Answer 17

D. to work gradually into a state

E. years were needed for the agent to insinuate himself into the terrorist organization

Question 18

insipid

Answer 18

D. tasteless; dull

E. an apple pie with a mushy, insipid filling that strongly resembled soggy cardboard

Question 19

insolent

Answer 19

D. impudent; disrespectful

Question 20

insouciant

\in-ˈsü-sē-ənt\

Answer 20

D. carefree; indifferent

E. wandered into the meeting with complete insouciance to the fact that she was late

Question 21

instigate

Answer 21

D. to incite

Question 22

insular

\ˈin(t)-su̇-lər\

Answer 22

D. like an island; isolated; narrowminded

E. an insular community that is not receptive of new ideas, especially from outsiders

Question 23

insuperable

\in-ˈsü-p(ə-)rə-bəl\

Answer 23

D. unable to be overcome

E. insuperable problems have arisen which make it very unlikely that we will ever finish this project

Question 24

insurgent

Answer 24

D. a person who rises up against (political) authority

E. the government subjected the insurgents to the most inhuman torture imaginable

Question 25

intangible

Answer 25

D. unable to be touched; impalpable

Question 26

integrity

Answer 26

D. wholeness

Question 27

intelligentsia

\in-ˌte-lə-ˈjen(t)-sēä\

Answer 27

D. intellectuals as a group

E. a presidential candidate who was the darling of the intelligentsia—and very few others

Question 28

inter

\in-ˈtər\

Answer 28

D. to bury

E. a burial site where people have been interred for over a thousand years / the soldier was interred with great honors at Arlington National Cemetery

Question 29

interdict

Answer 29

D. to prohibit

E. the church’s controversial interdict against the use of birth control devices

Question 30

interim

\ˈin-tə-rəm\

Answer 30

D. meantime

E. there was a brief interim in the proceedings while everyone got organized

Question 31

interjection

Answer 31

D. sth thrown in or interrupted with; an exclamation

E. a chorus of angry interjections greeted the announcement that our flight would be delayed

Question 32

intermittent

Answer 32

D. periodic; starting and stopping

Question 33

internecine

\ˌin-tər-ˈne-ˌsēn\

Answer 33

D. mutually harmful

e. a political party that has suffered because of bitter internecine rivalries

Question 34

interpolate

\in-ˈtər-po-ˌlāt\

Answer 34

D. to insert

E. He smoothly interpolates fragments from other songs into his own.

Question 35

interregnum

\ˌin-tə-ˈreg-nəm\

Answer 35

D. a break, as between governments or regimes

E. the democratic regime proved to be a short-lived interregnum between dictatorships

Question 36

intestate

\in-ˈtes-ˌtāt\

Answer 36

D. without a legal will to distribute one’s property after death

E. He died intestate

Question 37

intimate

Answer 37

D. to hint

E. Is he really—as his advisers keep intimating to Western journalists—a serious reformer waiting to emerge from the closet?

Question 38

intractable

Answer 38

D. unruly or stubborn

Question 39

intransigent

\in-‘tran-sə-jənt\

Answer 39

D. refusing to agree or compromise

E. he has remained intransigent, refusing all suggestions for improvement of the process

Question 40

intrepid

Answer 40

D. fearless

Question 41

intrinsic

Answer 41

D. inherent; of the nature of a thing

E. the intrinsic value of a gem

Question 42

introvert

Answer 42

D. a person who looks inside himself more than outside

Question 43

intuition

Answer 43

D. immediate understanding based on feelings rather than facts

E. Intuition was telling her that something was very wrong

Question 44

inundate

\ˈi-(ˌ)nən-ˌdāt\

Answer 44

D. to flood

E. water from the overflowing bathtub inundated the bathroom floor

Question 45

inured

Answer 45

D. habituated (to sth unpleasant)

E. Does violence on television inure children to violence in real life?

Question 46

invective

Answer 46

D. a violent verbal attack

E. hurled curses and invective at the driver who heedlessly cut them off in traffic