NSF regionals vocabulary f20 Flashcards

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Indiscreet

A

To reveal things that are meant to be secret,

disclose

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Indissoluble

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Cannot be dissolved, or decomposed

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Indurate

A

To harden

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Ineffable

A

Inexpressible in words

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Inexpedient

A

Not suitable or advisable

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Infamy

A

Extremely bad reputation

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Influx

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To flow in

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Infomercial

A

A television program that promotes a product

in a informative way

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Infrastructure

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Underlying framework of something

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Infusion

A

A extract or liquid formed by steeping and

soaking

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Ingrate

A

An ungrateful person

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Inherent

A

Existing in something as permanent

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Inhibiting

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To restraint or hold back

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Inimitable

A

Unable to imitate

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Iniquity

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Wickedness, unfair behavior

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Injunction

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An authoritative order or command

17
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Innate

A

Existing from birth

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Innocuous

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Harmless, not affective

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Inopportune

A

Inappropriate, inconvenient

20
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Insipid

A

Without distinctive qualities

21
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Insular

A

Pertaining to islands, uninterested in cultures

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Insuperable

A

Impossible to overcome

23
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Intangible

A

Incapable of being touched

24
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Intern

A

A student in college who works sometimes

without pay

25
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Interregnum

A

A time or period without a ruler

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Intersperse

A

Intervals between things, scatter among

things

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Intone

A

To recite or sing an utterance

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Intractable

A

Hard to control or deal with

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Intransigent

A

Refusing to agree

30
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Intravenous

A

Pertaining to the veins

31
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Intuit

A

Understand or work out by instinct

32
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Invalidate

A

Not correct, a card that is inactive

33
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Irate

A

Very angry

34
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Iridescent

A

Showing different colors

35
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Irrefutable

A

Impossible to deny

36
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Irrelevance

A

Not relevant, totally different

37
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Irremediable

A

Not admitting of remedy

38
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Isometrics

A

A sum of physical exercises where muscles

are working against a fixed object

39
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Itinerant

A

Characterized by moving place to place