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I Flashcards

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Idiosyncrasy

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An individualizing characteristic or quality

Characteristic peculiarity (as of temperament)

Individual hypersensitiveness (as to a drug or food)

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Ignoble

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Of low birth or common origins

Characterized by baseness or lowness

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Illuminate

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Brightened with light

Intellectually or spiritually enlightened

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Illustrate

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To enlighten, light up, or make bright

To make clear or show clearly

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Imbue

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To permeate or influence

To tinge or dye deeply

Endow

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Immaculate

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Having no stain or blemish, pure

Having no flaw or error

Spotlessly clean

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Impasse

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A deadlock, a predicament offering no obvious escape

An impassable road or way

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Imply

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To express indirectly

To contain potentially

Enfold, entwine

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Impulsive

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Acting or done without forethought

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Inane

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Empty, insubstantial

Lacking significance, meaning, or point

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Incident

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An event or occurrence

Likely to happen because of, resulting from

The occurrence of dangerous or exciting things

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Incidental

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Accompanying but not a major part of something

Liable to happen as a consequence of an activity

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Incision

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A surgical cut made in the skin or flesh

A small cut in a surface

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Incisive

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(Of a person or mental process) intelligently analytical and clear thinking

(Of an account) accurate and sharply focused

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Incite

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To encourage or stir up violent or unlawful behavior

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Incognito

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(Of a person) having one’s true identity concealed

An assumed or false identity

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Indifferent

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Having no particular interest or sympathy, unconcerned

Neither good nor bad, mediocre

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Indignant

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Feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy

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Infiltrate

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To cause something to permeate something else

To pass into or through a substance by filtering or permeating

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Ingenuity

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Skill or cleverness in devising or combining, cleverness or aptness of design

An ingenious device

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Ingress

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The act of entering

The power of liberty or entrance or access

22
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Inhabit

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To live in

To be present in or occupy

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Initial

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Of or relating to the beginning

First

24
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Innate

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Native, inborn

Belonging to the essential nature of something

Originating in or derived from the mind it the constitution of the intellect rather then from experience

25
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Innocuous

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Harmless, inoffensive

26
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Innovate

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To make changes or do something in a new way

27
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Inquiry

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Research

A request for information

A systematic investigation for the purpose of public interest

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Insight

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The power or act of seeing into a situation

The act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively

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Insinuate

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The introduce something gradually or in a subtle, indirect, of covert way

To imply

To enter gently, slowly, or in perceptibly

30
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Insipid

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Tasteless

Dull, flat

31
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Insolent

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Showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect

32
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Integrity

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Firm adherence to a code of moral or artistic values

An unimpaired condition

Completeness

33
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Intermission

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An interval between the parts of an entertainment

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Integrate

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To unite

To bring people or groups with particular characteristics or needs into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution

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Intricate

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Complicated, having many complex parts or elements

Difficult to resolve or analyze

36
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Inundate

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To overflow, overwhelm

37
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Invoke

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To cite it appeal to someone or something as an authority for action or in support of an argument

To beg, implore, call earnestly for

38
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Irate

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Feeling or characterized by great anger

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