I Flashcards
Idiosyncrasy
An individualizing characteristic or quality
Characteristic peculiarity (as of temperament)
Individual hypersensitiveness (as to a drug or food)
Ignoble
Of low birth or common origins
Characterized by baseness or lowness
Illuminate
Brightened with light
Intellectually or spiritually enlightened
Illustrate
To enlighten, light up, or make bright
To make clear or show clearly
Imbue
To permeate or influence
To tinge or dye deeply
Endow
Immaculate
Having no stain or blemish, pure
Having no flaw or error
Spotlessly clean
Impasse
A deadlock, a predicament offering no obvious escape
An impassable road or way
Imply
To express indirectly
To contain potentially
Enfold, entwine
Impulsive
Acting or done without forethought
Inane
Empty, insubstantial
Lacking significance, meaning, or point
Incident
An event or occurrence
Likely to happen because of, resulting from
The occurrence of dangerous or exciting things
Incidental
Accompanying but not a major part of something
Liable to happen as a consequence of an activity
Incision
A surgical cut made in the skin or flesh
A small cut in a surface
Incisive
(Of a person or mental process) intelligently analytical and clear thinking
(Of an account) accurate and sharply focused
Incite
To encourage or stir up violent or unlawful behavior
Incognito
(Of a person) having one’s true identity concealed
An assumed or false identity
Indifferent
Having no particular interest or sympathy, unconcerned
Neither good nor bad, mediocre
Indignant
Feeling or showing anger because of something unjust or unworthy
Infiltrate
To cause something to permeate something else
To pass into or through a substance by filtering or permeating
Ingenuity
Skill or cleverness in devising or combining, cleverness or aptness of design
An ingenious device
Ingress
The act of entering
The power of liberty or entrance or access
Inhabit
To live in
To be present in or occupy
Initial
Of or relating to the beginning
First
Innate
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
Innocuous
Harmless, inoffensive
Innovate
To make changes or do something in a new way
Inquiry
Research
A request for information
A systematic investigation for the purpose of public interest
Insight
The power or act of seeing into a situation
The act or result of apprehending the inner nature of things or of seeing intuitively
Insinuate
The introduce something gradually or in a subtle, indirect, of covert way
To imply
To enter gently, slowly, or in perceptibly
Insipid
Tasteless
Dull, flat
Insolent
Showing a rude and arrogant lack of respect
Integrity
Firm adherence to a code of moral or artistic values
An unimpaired condition
Completeness
Intermission
An interval between the parts of an entertainment
Integrate
To unite
To bring people or groups with particular characteristics or needs into equal participation in or membership of a social group or institution
Intricate
Complicated, having many complex parts or elements
Difficult to resolve or analyze
Inundate
To overflow, overwhelm
Invoke
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
Irate
Feeling or characterized by great anger
