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Intractable

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Not easily managed

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Interregnum

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Interval between reigns; gap in continuity

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Intransigence

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Stubbornness; refusal to compromise

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Introspective

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Contemplating one’s own thoughts and feelings

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Ineluctable

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Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable

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Inert

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Unable to move; sluggish;

Inertia: disinclination to action or change

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Ingenuous

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Naive and trusting; lacking sophistication

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Inherent

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Firmly established by nature or habit

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Innocuous

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Harmless

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Insensible

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Unconscious, unresponsive

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Insinuate

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To suggest, say indirectly; imply

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Insipid

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Lacking flavour, dull

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Insouciant

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Indifferent, lacking concern or care

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Insularity

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Narrow-mindedness; isolation

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Inadvertently

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Carelessly, unintentionally

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Incarnate

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Having bodily form (represent a God)

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Inchoate

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Imperfectly formed or formulated

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Incongruity

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State of not fitting

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Incursion

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Sudden invasion

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Indigence

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Poverty

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Indolent

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Habitually lazy, idle

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Impervious

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Impossible to penetrate; incapable of bring affected

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Impinge

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To strike, encroach

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Implacable

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Inflexible; incapable of being pleased

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Implausible

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Unlikely, unbelievable

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Imprecation

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Curse

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Impute

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To relate to a particular cause or source; attribute the fault to; assign as a characteristic

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Hyperbole

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Purposeful exaggeration for effect

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Iconoclast

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Attacking cherished traditions

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Ideology

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Set of ideas that form the basis of a political or economic system

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Idolatry

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Idol worship; blind or excessive devotion

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Igneous

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Produced by fire; volcanic

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Imbroglio

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Complicated situation; entanglement

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Immutable

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Unchangeable

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Impassive

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Showing no emotion

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Impecunious

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Poor; having no money

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Harrowing

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We trembly distressing; terrifying

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Hermetic

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Tightly sealed; magical

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Heterodox

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Unorthodox; not widely accepted

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hirsute

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Covered with hair

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Histrionic

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Relating to exaggerated emotional behaviour calculated for effect; theatrical arts or performances

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Homily

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Sermon, tedious moralizing lecture; platitude

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