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Word List 26-30
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Infringe | v. violate; encroach |
| Ingenious | adj. clever; resourceful |
| Ingenuous | adj. naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated |
| Ingrained | adj. deeply established; firmly rooted |
| Ingrate | n. ungrateful person |
| Ingratiate | v. become popular with |
| Inherent | adj. firmly established by nature or habit |
| Inhibit | v. restrain; retard or prevent |
| Inimical | adj. unfriendly; hostile; harmful; detrimental |
| Inimitable | adj. matchless; not able to be imitated |
| Iniquitous | adj. wicked; immoral; unrighteous |
| Initiate | v. begin; originate; receive into a group |
| Injurious | adj. harmful |
| Inkling | n. hint |
| Innate | adj. inborn |
| Innocuous | adj. harmless |
| Innovation | n. change; introduction of something new |
| Innuendo | n. hint; insinuation |
| Inopportune | adj. untimely; poorly chosen |
| Inordinate | adj. unrestrained; excessive |
| Inquisitor | n. questioner (especially harsh); investigator |
| Insalubrious | adj. unwholesome; not healthful |
| Insatiable | adj. not easily satisfied; unquenchable; greedy |
| Inscrutable | adj. impenetrable; not readily understood; mysterious |
| Insensate | adj. without feeling |
| Insensible | adj. unconscious; unresponsive |
| Insidious | adj. treacherous; stealthy; sly |
| Insightful | adj. discerning; perceptive |
| Insinuate | v. hint; imply; creep in |
| Insipid | adj. lacking in flavor; dull |
| Insolence | n. impudent disrespect; haughtiness |
| Insolvent | adj. bankrupt; lacking money to pay |
| Insomnia | n. wakefulness; inability to sleep |
| Insouciant | adj. indifferent; without concern or care |
| Instigate | v. urge; start; provoke |
| Insubordination | n. disobedience; rebelliousness |
| Insubstantial | adj. lacking substance; insignificant; frail |
| Insularity | n. narrow-mindedness; isolation |
| Insuperable | adj. insurmountable; unbeatable |
| Insurgent | adj. rebellious |
| Insurmountable | adj. overwhelming; unbeatable; insuperable |
| Insurrection | n. rebellion; uprising |
| Intangible | adj. not able to be perceived by touch; vague |
| Integral | adj. complete; necessary for completeness |
| Integrate | v. make whole; combine; make into one unit |
| Integrity | n. uprightness; wholeness |
| Intellect | n. higher mental powers |
| Intelligentsia | n. intellectuals; members of the educated elite [often used derogatorily] |
| Inter | v. bury |
| Interdict | v. prohibit; forbid |
| Interim | n. meantime |
| Interloper | n. intruder |
| Interminable | adj. endless |
| Intermittent | adj. periodic; on and off |
| Internecine | adj. mutually destructive |
| Interpolate | v. insert between |
| Interregnum | n. period between two reigns |
| Interrogate | v. question closely; cross-examine |
| Intervene | v. come between |
| Intimate | v. hint |
| Intimidate | v. frighten |
| Intractable | adj. unruly; stubborn; unyielding |
| Intransigence | n. refusal of any compromise; stubbornness |
| Intrepid | adj. fearless |
| Intrinsic | adj. essential; inherent; built in |
| Introspective | adj. looking within oneself |
| Introvert | n. one who is introspective; inclined to think more about oneself |
| Intrude | v. trespass; enter as an uninvited person |
| Intuition | n. immediate insight; power of knowing without reasoning |
| Inundate | v. overwhelm; flood; submerge |
| Inure | adj. accustomed; hardened |
| Invalidate | v. weaken; destroy |
| Invective | n. abuse |
| Inveigh | v. denounce; utter censure or invective |
| Inveigle | v. lead astray; wheedle |
| Inverse | adj. opposite |
| Invert | v. turn upside down or inside out |
| Inveterate | adj. deep rooted; habitual |
| Invidious | adj. designed to created ill will or envy |
| Invincible | adj. unconquerable |
| Inviolable | adj. secure from corruption, attack, or violation; unassailable |
| Invocation | n. prayer for help; calling upon as reference or support |
| Invoke | v. call upon; ask for |
| Invulnerable | adj. incapable of injury |
| Iota | n. very small quantity |
| Irascible | adj. irritable; easily angered |
| Irate | adj. angry |
| Iridescent | adj. exhibiting rainbow like colors |
| Irksome | adj. annoying; tedious |
| Ironic | adj. occurring in an unexpected and contrary manner |
| Irony | n. hidden sarcasm or satire; use of words that seem to mean the opposite of what they actually mean |
| Irreconcilable | adj. incompatibly; not able to be resolved |
| Irrefutable | adj. indisputable; incontrovertible; undeniable |
| Irrelevant | adj. not applicable; unrelated |
| Irremediable | adj. incurable; uncorrectable |
| Irreparable | adj. not able to be corrected or repaired |
| Irrepressible | adj. unable to be restrained or held back |
| Irreproachable | adj. blameless; impeccable |
| Irresolute | adj. uncertain how to act; weak |
| Irretrievable | adj. impossible to recover or regain; irreparable |
| Irreverence | n. lack of proper respect |
| Irrevocable | adj. unalterable; irreversible |
| Isotope | n. varying form of an element |
| Isthmus | n. narrow neck of land connecting two larger bodies of land |
| Itinerant | adj. wandering; traveling |
| Itinerary | n. plan of a trip |
| Jabber | v. chatter rapidly or unintelligibly |
| Jaded | adj. fatigued; surfeited |
| Jargon | n. language used by a special group; technical terminology; gibberish |
| Jaundiced | adj. prejudiced (envious, hostile, or resentful); yellowed |
| Jaunt | n. trip; short journey |
| Jaunty | adj. lighthearted; animated; easy and carefree |
| Jeopardize | v. endanger; imperil; put at risk |
| Jettison | v. throw overboard |
| Jibe | v. agree; be in harmony with |
| Jingoist | n. extremely aggressive and militant patriot; warlike chauvinist |
| Jocose | adj. given to joking |
| Jocular | adj. said or done in jest |
| Jocund | adj. merry |
| Jollity | n. gaiety; cheerfulness |
| Jostle | v. shove; bump |
| Jovial | adj. good-natured; merry |
| Jubilation | n. rejoicing |
| Judicious | adj. sound in judgment; wise |
| Juggernaut | n. irresistible crushing force |
| Juncture | n. crisis; joining point |
| Junket | n. trip, especially one taken for pleasure by an official at public expense |
| Junta | n. group of persons joined in political intrigue; cabal |
| Jurisprudence | n. science of law |
| Justification | n. good or just reason; defense; excuse |
| Juxtapose | v. place side by side |
| Kaleidoscope | n. tube in which patterns made by the reflection in mirrors of colored pieces of glass produce interesting symmetrical effects |
| Ken | n. range of knowledge |
| Kernel | n. central or vital part; whole seed (as of corn) |
| Killjoy | n. grouch; spoilsport |
| Kindle | v. start a fire; inspire |
| Kindred | adj. related; similar in nature or character |
| Kinetic | adj. producing motion |
| Kismet | n. fate |
| Kleptomaniac | n. person who has a compulsive desire to steal |
| Knave | n. untrustworthy person; rogue; scoundrel |
| Knead | v. mix; work dough |
| Knell | n. tolling of a bell, especially to indicate a funeral, disaster, etc.; sound of the funeral bell |
| Knit | v. contract into wrinkles; grow together |
| Knoll | n. little round hill |
| Knotty | adj. intricate; difficult; tangled |
| Kudos | n. honor; glory; praise |
| Labile | adj. likely to change; unstable |
| Laborious | adj. demanding much work or care; tedious |
| Labyrinth | n. maze |
| Laceration | n. torn ragged wound |
| Lachrymose | adj. producing tears |
| Lackadaisical | adj. lacking purpose or zest; halfhearted; languid |
| Lackluster | adj. dull |
| Laconic | adj. brief and to the point |
| Laggard | adj. slow; sluggish |
| Lagoon | n. shallow body of water near a sea; lake |
| Laity | n. laypersons; person not connected with the clergy |
| Lambaste | v. beat; thrash verbally or physically |
| Lament | v. grieve; express sorrow |
| Lampoon | v. ridicule |
| Lancet | n. small surgical tool for making incisions |
| Languid | adj. weary; sluggish; listless |
| Languish | v. loose animation or strength |
| Languor | n. lassitude; depression |
| Lank | adj. long and thin |
| Lap | v. take in food or drink with one’s tongue; splash gently |
| Larceny | n. theft |
| Larder | n. pantry; place where food is kept |
| Largess | n. generous gift |
| Lascivious | adj. lustful |
| Lassitude | n. languor; weariness |
| Latent | adj. potential but undeveloped; dormant; hidden |
| Lateral | adj. coming from the side |
| Latitude | n. freedom from narrow limitations |
| Laud | v. praise |
| Lavish | adj. liberal; wasteful |
| Lax | adj. careless |
| Leaven | v. cause to rise or grow lighter; enliven |
| Lechery | n. gross lewdness; lustfulness |
| Lectern | n. reading desk |
| Leery | adj. suspicious; cautious |
| Leeway | n. room to move; margin |
| Legacy | n. a gift made by a will |
| Legend | n. explanatory list of symbols on a map |
| Legerdemain | n. sleight of hand |
| Leniency | n. mildness; permissiveness |
| Leonine | adj. like a lion |
| Lethal | adj. deadly |
| Lethargic | adj. drowsy; dull |
| Levee | n. earthen or stone embankment to prevent flooding |
| Levitate | v. float in the air (especially by magical means) |
| Levity | n. lack of seriousness or steadiness; frivolity |
| Levy | v. impose (a fine); collect (a payment) |
| Lewd | adj. lustful |
| Lexicographer | n. compiler of a dictionary |
| Lexicon | n. dictionary |
| Liability | n. drawback; debts |
| Liaison | n. contact that keeps parties in communication; go-between; secret love affair |
| Libel | n. defamatory statement; act of writing something that smear a person’s character |
| Libertine | n. debauched person (roué) |
| Libidinous | adj. lustful |
| Libido | n. emotional urges behind human activity |
| Libretto | n. text of an opera |
| Licentious | adj. amoral; lewd and lascivious; unrestrained |
| Lien | n. legal claim on a property |
| Ligneous | adj. like wood |
| Lilliputian | adj. extremely small |
| Limber | adj. flexible |
| Limbo | n. region near heaven or hell where souls are kept; prison (slang) |
| Limn | v. draw; outline; describe |
| Limpid | adj. clear |
| Lineage | n. descent; ancestry |
| Lineaments | n. features, especially of the face |
| Linger | v. loiter or dawdle; continue or persist |
| Linguistic | adj. pertaining to language |
| Lionize | v. treat as a celebrity |
| Liquidate | v. settle accounts; clear up |
| List | v. tilt; lean over |
| Listless | adj. lacking in spirit or energy |
| Litany | n. supplicatory prayer |
| Lithe | adj. flexible; supple |
| Litigation | n. lawsuit |
| Litotes | n. understatement for emphasis |
| Livid | adj. lead colored; black and blue; ashen; enraged |
| Loath | adj. reluctant; disinclined |
| Loathe | v. detest |
| Lode | n. metal bearing vein |
| Lofty | adj. very high |
| Log | n. record of a voyage or flight; record of day to day activities |
| Loiter | v. hang around; linger |
| Loll | v. lounge about |
| Longevity | n. long life |
| Loom | v. appear or take shape (usually in an enlarged or distorted form) |
| Lope | v. gallop slowly |
| Loquacious | adj. talkative |
| Lout | n. clumsy person |
| Low | v. moo |
| Lucid | adj. easily understood; clear; intelligible |
| Lucrative | adj. profitable |
| Lucre | n. money |
| Ludicrous | adj. laughable; trifling |
| Lugubrious | adj. mournful |
| Lull | n. moment of calm |
| Lumber | v. move heavily or clumsily |
| Lumen | n. unit of light energy (one candle’s worth) |
| Luminary | n. celebrity; dignitary |
| Luminous | adj. shining; issuing light |
| Lunar | adj. pertaining to the moon |
| Lunge | v. make a quick forward dive or reach; thrust |
| Lurid | adj. wild; sensational; graphic; gruesome |
| Lurk | v. stealthily lie in waiting; slink; exist unperceived |
| Luscious | adj. pleasing to taste or smell |
| Luster | n. shine; gloss |
| Lustrous | adj. shining |
| Luxuriant | adj. abundant; rich and splendid; fertile |
| Macabre | adj. gruesome; grisly |
| Mace | n. ceremonial staff; club like medieval weapon |
| Macerate | v. soften by soaking in liquid; waste away |
| Machiavellian | adj. crafty; double-dealing |
| Machinations | n. evil schemes or plots |
| Maculated | adj. spotted; stained |
| Madrigal | n. pastoral song |
| Maelstrom | n. whirlpool |
| Magisterial | adj. authoritative; imperious |
| Magnanimity | n. generosity |
| Magnate | n. person of prominence or influence |
| Magniloquent | adj. boastful, pompous |
| Magnitude | n. greatness; extent |
| Maim | v. mutilate; injure |
| Maladroit | adj. clumsy; bungling |
| Malady | n. illness |
| Malaise | n. uneasiness; vague feeling of ill health |
| Malapropism | n. comic misuse of a word |
| Malcontent | n. person dissatisfied with existing state of affairs |
| Malediction | n. curse |
| Malefactor | n. evildoer; criminal |
| Malevolent | adj. wishing evil |
| Malfeasance | n. wrongdoing |
| Malicious | adj. hateful; spiteful |
| Malign | v. speak evil of; badmouth; defame |
| Malignant | adj. injurious; tending to cause death; aggressively malevolent |
| Malingerer | n. one who feigns illness to escape duty |
| Malleable | adj. capable of being shaped by pounding; impressionable |
| Malodorous | adj. foul-smelling |
| Mammal | n. vertebrate animal whose female suckles its young |
| Mammoth | adj. gigantic; enormous |
| Manacle | v. restrain; handcuff |
| Mandate | n. order; charge |
| Mandatory | adj. obligatory |
| Mangy | adj. shabby; wretched |
| Maniacal | adj. raging mad; insane |
| Manifest | adj. evident; visible; obvious |
| Manifestation | n. outward demonstration; indication |
| Manifesto | n. declaration; statement of policy |
| Manifold | n. numerous; varied |
| Manipulate | v. operate with one’s hands; control or play upon (people, forces, etc.) artfully |
| Mannered | adj. affected; not natural |
| Manumit | v. emancipate; free from bondage |
| Marital | adj. pertaining to marriage |
| Maritime | adj. bordering on the sea; nautical |
| Marked | adj. noticeable; targeted for vengeance |
| Marred | adj. damaged; disfigured |
| Marshal | v. put in order |
| Marsupial | n. one of a family of mammals that nurse their offspring in their pouch |
| Martial | adj. warlike |
| Martinet | n. disciplinarian |
| Martyr | n. one who voluntarily suffers death for his or her religion or cause; great sufferer |
| Masochist | n. person who enjoys his own pain |
| Masticate | v. chew |
| Materialism | n. preoccupation with physical comfort and things |
| Maternal | adj. motherly |
| Matriarch | n. woman who rules a family or larger social group |
| Matriculate | v. enroll (in college or graduate school) |
| Matrix | n. point of origin; array of numbers or algebraic symbols; mold or die |
| Maudlin | adj. effusively sentimental |
| Maul | v. handle roughly |
| Mausoleum | n. monumental tomb |
| Mauve | adj. pale purple |
| Maverick | n. rebel; nonconformist |
| Mawkish | adj. mushy and gushy; icky sticky sentimental; maudlin |
| Maxim | n. proverb; a truth pithily stated |
| Mayhem | n. injury to body |
| Meager | adj. scanty; inadequate |
| Mealymouthed | adj. indirect in speech; hypocritical; evasive |
| Meander | v. wind or turn in its course |
| Meddlesome | adj. interfering |
| Mediate | v. settle a dispute through the services of an outsider |
| Mediocre | adj. ordinary; commonplace |
| Meditation | n. reflection; thought |
| Medium | n. element that is a creatures natural environment; nutrient setting in which microorganisms are cultivated |
| Medium | n. appropriate occupation or means of expression; channel of communication; compromise |
| Medley | n. mixture |
| Meek | adj. submissive; patient and long-suffering |
| Megalomania | n. mania for doing grandiose things |
| Melancholy | adj. gloomy; morose; blue |
| Melee | n. fight |
| Mellifluous | adj. sweetly or smoothly flowing; melodious |
| Memento | n. token; reminder |
| Memorialize | v. commemorate |
| Menagerie | n. collection of wild animals |
| Mendacious | adj. lying; habitually dishonest |
| Mendicant | n. beggar |
| Menial | adj. suitable for servant; lowly; mean |
| Mentor | n. counselor; teacher |
| Mercantile | adj. concerning trade |
| Mercenary | adj. motivated solely by money or gain |
| Mercurial | adj. capricious; changing; fickle |
| Meretricious | adj. flashy; tawdry |
| Merger | n. combination (of two business corporations) |
| Mesmerize | v. hypnotize |
| Metallurgical | adj. pertaining to the art of removing metals from ores |
| Metamorphosis | n. change of form |
| Metaphor | n. implied comparison |
| Metaphysical | adj. pertaining to speculative philosophy |
| Mete | v. measure; distribute |
| Meteoric | adj. swift; momentarily brilliant |
| Methodical | adj. systematic |
| Meticulous | adj. excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous |
| Metropolis | n. large city |
| Mettle | n. courage; spirit |
| Miasma | n. swamp gas; heavy vaporous atmosphere, often emanating from decaying matter; pervasive corrupting influence |
| Microcosm | n. small world; world in miniature |
| Migrant | adj. changing its habitat; wandering |
| Migratory | adj. wandering |
| Milieu | n. environment; means of expression |
| Militant | adj. combative; bellicose |
| Militate | v. work against |
| Millennium | n. thousand year period; period of happiness and prosperity |
| Mimicry | n. imitation |
| Minatory | adj. menacing; threatening |
| Mincing | adj. affectedly dainty |
| Minion | n. a servile dependent |
| Miniscule | adj. extremely small |
| Minute | adj. extremely small |
| Minutiae | n. petty details |
| Mirage | n. unreal reflection; optical illusion |
| Mire | v. entangle; stick in swampy ground |
| Mirth | n. merriment; laughter |
| Misadventure | n. mischance; ill luck |
| Misanthrope | n. one who hates mankind |
| Misapprehension | n. error; misunderstanding |
| Miscellany | n. mixture of writings on various subjects |
| Mischance | n. ill luck |
| Misconstrue | v. interpret incorrectly; misjudge |
| Miscreant | n. wretch; villain |
| Misdemeanor | n. minor crime |
| Miserly | adj. stingy; mean |
| Misgivings | n. doubts |
| Mishap | n. accident |
| Misnomer | n. wrong name; incorrect designation |
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