Group10 Flashcards
(42 cards)
Intractable
Not easily managed
Interregnum
Interval between reigns; gap in continuity
Intransigence
Stubbornness; refusal to compromise
Introspective
Contemplating one’s own thoughts and feelings
Ineluctable
Not to be avoided or escaped; inevitable
Inert
Unable to move; sluggish;
Inertia: disinclination to action or change
Ingenuous
Naive and trusting; lacking sophistication
Inherent
Firmly established by nature or habit
Innocuous
Harmless
Insensible
Unconscious, unresponsive
Insinuate
To suggest, say indirectly; imply
Insipid
Lacking flavour, dull
Insouciant
Indifferent, lacking concern or care
Insularity
Narrow-mindedness; isolation
Inadvertently
Carelessly, unintentionally
Incarnate
Having bodily form (represent a God)
Inchoate
Imperfectly formed or formulated
Incongruity
State of not fitting
Incursion
Sudden invasion
Indigence
Poverty
Indolent
Habitually lazy, idle
Impervious
Impossible to penetrate; incapable of bring affected
Impinge
To strike, encroach
Implacable
Inflexible; incapable of being pleased