Deck 23

Question 1

impasse

Answer 1

a deadlock; a situation from which there is no escape

Question 2

impecunious

Answer 2

without money; penniless

Question 3

impending

Answer 3

approaching; imminent; looming

Question 4

imperial

Answer 4

like an emperor or an empire

Question 5

impetuous

Answer 5

over-impulsive; headlong; rash

Question 6

impervious

Answer 6

not allowing anything to pass through, impenetrable

Question 7

implement

Answer 7

to carry out

Question 8

importune

Answer 8

to urge with annoying persistence; to trouble

Question 9

impoverish

Answer 9

to reduce to poverty; to make destitute

Question 10

impregnable

Answer 10

unconquerable; able to withstand attack; imprenetrable

Question 11

impresario

Answer 11

a person who manages public entertainments (esp. operas)

Question 12

impugn

Answer 12

to attack, esp. to attack the truth or integrity of something

Question 13

impunity

Answer 13

freedom from punishment or harm

Question 14

inalienable

Answer 14

sacred; incapable of being transferred, lost, or taken away

Question 15

inane

Answer 15

silly, senseless

Question 16

inaugrate

Answer 16

to begin officially, to induct formally into office

Question 17

incandescent

Answer 17

brilliant; giving off heat or light

Question 18

incarnation

Answer 18

embodiment

Question 19

incendiary

Answer 19

used for setting property on fire; inflammatory; tending to arouse passion or anger

Question 20

incense

Answer 20

to make very angry

Question 21

incipient

Answer 21

beginning, emerging

Question 22

incisive

Answer 22

cutting right to the heart of the matter

Question 23

inclination

Answer 23

tendency, preference, liking

Question 24

incongruous

Answer 24

not harmonious; not consistent; not appropriate; not fitting in

Question 25

incorrigible

Answer 25

incapable of being reformed