NSF regionals vocabulary f20 Flashcards by Awesome Cool

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Indiscreet

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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

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To harden

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Ineffable

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Inexpressible in words

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Inexpedient

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Not suitable or advisable

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Infamy

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Extremely bad reputation

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Influx

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To flow in

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Infomercial

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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

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A extract or liquid formed by steeping and

soaking

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Ingrate

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An ungrateful person

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Inherent

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Existing in something as permanent

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Inhibiting

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To restraint or hold back

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Inimitable

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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

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Innate

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Existing from birth

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Innocuous

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Harmless, not affective

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Inopportune

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Inappropriate, inconvenient

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Insipid

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Without distinctive qualities

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Insular

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Pertaining to islands, uninterested in cultures

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Insuperable

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Impossible to overcome

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Intangible

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Incapable of being touched

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Intern

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A student in college who works sometimes

without pay

Interregnum

A time or period without a ruler

Intersperse

Intervals between things, scatter among | things

Intone

To recite or sing an utterance

Intractable

Hard to control or deal with

Intransigent

Refusing to agree

Intravenous

Pertaining to the veins

Intuit

Understand or work out by instinct

Invalidate

Not correct, a card that is inactive

Irate

Very angry

Iridescent

Showing different colors

Irrefutable

Impossible to deny

Irrelevance

Not relevant, totally different

Irremediable

Not admitting of remedy

Isometrics

A sum of physical exercises where muscles | are working against a fixed object

Itinerant

Characterized by moving place to place