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SAT Vocabulary
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| abash | to make ashamed; to embarrass |
| abate | to subside; to reduce |
| abdicate | to step down from a position of power or responsibility |
| aberration | something not typical; a deviation form the standard |
| abhor | to hate very, very much; to detest |
| abject | hopeless; extremely sad and servile; defeated |
| abnegate | to deny oneself things; to reject; to renounce |
| abortive | unsuccessful |
| abridge | to shorten to condense |
| absolute | total; unlimited; perfect |
| absolve | to forgive or free from blame; to free from sin; to free from an obligation |
| abstinent | abstaining; voluntarily not doing something, especially something pleasant that is bad for you or has a bad reputation |
| abstract | theoretical; impersonal |
| abstruse | hard to understand |
| abysmal | extremely hopeless or wretched; bottomless |
| accolade | an award; an honor |
| accost | to approach and speak to someone aggressively |
| acerbic | bitter; sour; severe |
| acquiesce | to comply passively; to accept; to assent; to agree |
| acrid | harsh; like acid |
| acrimonious | full of spite; bitter; nasty |
| acumen | keenness of judgment; mental sharpness |
| acute | sharp; shrewd |
| adamant | stubborn; unyielding; completely inflexible |
| address | to speak to; to direct one's attention to |
| adherent | follower; suppporter; believer |
| admonish | to scold gently; to warn |
| adroit | skillful; dexterous; clever; shrewd; socially at ease |
| dexterous | skillful; adroit; clever; shrewd; socially at ease |
| gauche | graceless; crude; socially awkward; clumsy |
| adulation | wild or excessive admiration; flattery |
| adulterate | to contaminate; to make impure |
| adverse | unfavorable; antagonistic |
| aesthetic | having to do with artistic beauty; artistic |
| affable | easy to talk to; friendly |
| affectation | unnatural or artificial behavior, usually intended to impress |
| affinity | sympathy; attraction; kinship; similarity |
| affluent | rich; prosperous |
| agenda | program; the things to be done |
| agrarian | relating to land; relating to the management or farming of land |
| agnostic | one who believes that the existence of a god can be neither proven nor disproven |
| aggregate | sum total; a collection of separate things mixed together |
| congregate | to get together |
| segregate | to keep apart or separte |
| integrate | to unite |
| alacirty | cheerful eagerness or readiness to respond |
| allege | to assert without proof |
| alleviate | to relieve, usually temporarily or incompletely; to make bearable; to lessen |
| allocate | to distribute; to assign; to allot |
| alloy | a combination of two or more things, usually metals |
| allusion | an indirect reference (often to a literary work); a hint |
| aloof | uninvolved; standing off; keeping one's distance |
| altuism | selflessness; generosity; devotion to the interests of others |
| ambience | atmosphere; mood; feeling |
| ambiguous | unclear in meaning; confusing; capable of being interpreted in different ways |
| ambivalent | undicided; having opposed feelings simultaneously |
| ameliorate | to make better or more tolerable |
| amenable | obedient; willing to give in to the wishes of another; agreeable |
| amenity | pleasantness; attractive or comfortable feature |
| amiable | friendly; agreeable |
| amnesty | an official pardon for a group of people who have violated a law or policy |
| amicable | politely friendly, or not hostile |
| amoral | lacking a sense of right and wrong; neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral; without moral feelings |
| amorous | feeling loving, especially in a sexual sense; in love; relating to love |
| amorphous | shapeless; without a regular or stable shape; bloblike |
| anachronism | something out of place in time or history; an incongruity |
| analogy | a comparison of one thing to another; similarity |
| anarchy | absence of government or control; lawlessness; disorder |
| monarchy | government headed by a king or queen |
| anecdote | a short account of a humorous or revealing incident |
| anguish | agonizing physical or mental pain |
| animosity | resentment; hostility; ill will |
| anomaly | an aberration; an irregularity; a deviation |
| antecedent | someone or something that went before; something that provides a model for something that came after it |
| antipathy | firm dislike; a dislike |
| antithesis | the direct opposite |
| apartheid | the abhorrent policy of racial segregation and opprssion in the Republic of Sout Africa |
| apathy | lack of interest; lack of feeling |
| aphorism | a brief, often witty saying; a proverb |
| apocalypse | a prophetic revelation, especially one concerning the end of the world |
| apocryphal | of dubious authenticity; fictitious; spurrious |
| apotheosis | elevation to divine status; the perfect example of something |
| appease | to soothe; to pacitfy by giving in to |
| appreciate | to increase in value |
| depreciate | to decrease in value |
| apprehensive | worried; anxious |
| misapprehension | misunderstanding |
| approbation | approval; praise |
| appropriate | to take without permission; to set aside for a particular use |
| misapproriate | misuse public money |
| expropriate | take property officially |
| aptitude | capacity for learning; natural ability |
| arbiter | one who decides; a judge |
| arbitrate | weigh opposing viewpoints and make decisions |
| arbitrary | random; capricious |
| arcane | mysterious; known only to a selct few |
| archaic | extremely old; ancient; outdated |
| archetype | an original model or pattern |
| ardent | passionate; enthusiastic |
| arduous | hard; difficult |
| aristocratic | of noble birth; snobbish |
| artful | crafty; wily; sly |
| artifice | a clever trick; cunning |
| ascendancy | supremacy; domination |
| ascetic | hermitlike; practicing self-denial |
| assiduous | hardworking; busy; quite diligent |
| assimilate | to take in; to absorb; to learn thoroughly |
| assuage | to soothe; to pacify; to ease the pain of; to relieve |
| astute | shrewd; keen in judgment |
| attrition | gradual wearing away, weakening, or loss; a natural or expected decrease in numbers or size |
| audacity | boldness; neckless daring; impertinence |
| augment | to make bigger; to add to; to increase |
| auspicious | favorable; promising; pointing to a good result |
| austere | unadorned; stern; forbidding; without excess |
| autocratic | ruling with absolute authority; extremely bossy |
| autonomous | acting independently |
| avarice | greed; excessive love of rickes |
| avow | to claim; to declare boldly; to admit |
| avuncular | like an uncle, especially a nice uncle |
| awry | off course; twisted to one side |
| axiom | a self-evident rule or truth; a widely accepted saying |
| banal | unoriginal; ordinary |
| bane | poison; torment; cause of harm |
| bastion | stronghold; fortress; fortified place |
| beget | to give birth to; to create; to lead to; to cause |
| belabor | to go over repeatedly or to an absurd extent |
| beleaguer | to surround; to besiege; to harass |
| belie | to give a false impression of; to contradict |
| belittle | to make to seem little; to put someone down |
| belligerent | combative; quarrelsome; waging war |
| bemused | confused; bewildered |
| benefactor | one who provides help, expecially in the form of a gift or donation |
| beneficiary | one who receivea benefits |
| malefactor | one who does bad things |
| benevolent | generous; kind; doing good deeds |
| malevolent | evil; wishing to do harm |
| benign | gentle; not harmful; kind; mild |
| malignant | nasty; evil; full of ill will |
| malign | injure with lies; slander |
| bequest | something left to someone in a will |
| bequeath | to leave something to someone in a will |
| bereaved | deprived or left desolate, especially through death |
| beset | to harass; to surround |
| blasphemy | irreverence; an insult to something held sacred; profanity |
| blatant | unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring |
| blight | a disease in plants; anything that injures or destroys |
| blithe | carefree; cheerful |
| bourgeois | middle class, usually in a pejorative sense; boringly conventional |
| bovine | cow related; cowlike |
| canine | doglike |
| equine | horselike |
| feline | catlike |
| piscine | fishlike |
| porcine | piglike |
| ursine | bearlike |
| brevity | briefness |
| broach | to open up a subject for discussion, often a delicate subject |
| bucolic | charmingly rural; rustic; countrylike |
| bureaucracy | a system of government administration consisting of numerous bureaus or offices, especially one run according to inflexible and inefficient rules; any large administrative system characterized by inefficiency, lots of rules, and red tape |
| burgeon | to expand; to flourish |
| burlesque | a ludicrous, mocking, or exaggerated imitation |
| cacophony | harsh-sounding mixture of words, voices, or sounds |
| cadence | rhythm; the rise and fall of sounds |
| cajole | to persuade someone to do something he or she doesn't want to do |
| callow | immature |
| candor | truthfulness; sincere honesty |
| capitalism | free enterprise; an economic system in which businesses are owned by private citizens (not by the government) and in which the resulting products and services are sold with relatively little government control |
| capitulate | to surrender; to give up or give in |
| recapitulate | to summarize |
| capricious | unpredictable; likely to change at any moment |
| caricature | a portrait or description that is purposely distorted or exaggerated, often to prove some point about its subject |
| castigate | to criticize severely; to chastise |
| catalyst | in chemistry, something that changes the rate of a chemical reaction without itself being changed; anyone or anything that makes something happen without being directly involved in it |
| categorical | unconditional; absolute |
| catharsis | purification that brings emotional relief or renewal |
| catholic | universal; embracing everything |
| caustic | like acid; corrosive |
| celibacy | abstinence from sex |
| censure | to condemn severely for doing something bad |
| cerebral | brainy; intellectually refined |
| chagrin | humiliation; embarrassed disappointment |
| charisma | a magical-seeming ability to attract followers or inspire loyalty |
| charlatan | fraud; quack; con man |
| chasm | a deep, gaping hole; a gorge |
| chastise | to inflict punishment on; to discipline |
| chicanery | trickery; deceitfulness; artifice, especially legal or political |
| chimera | an illusion; a foolish fancy |
| choleric | hot-tempered; quick to anger |
| chronic | constant; lasting a long time; inveterate |
| chronicle | a record of events in order of time; a history |
| chronology | list in time order |
| chronological | in order of occurrence |
| circuitous | roundabout; not following a direct path |
| circumolocution | an indirect expression; use of wordy or evasive language |
| circumscribe | to draw a line around; to set the limits; to define; to restrict |
| circumspect | cautious |
| circumvent | to frustrate as though by surrounding |
| civil | polite; civilized; courteous |
| clemency | mercy; forgiveness; mildness |
| inclement | bad, as in weather |
| cliché | an overused saying or idea |
| clique | an exclusive group bound together by some shared quality or interest |
| coalesce | to come together as one; to fuse; to unite |
| coalition | a grouop of people that has come together for some purpose, often a political one |
| coerce | to force someone to do or not to do something |
| cogent | powerfully convincing |
| cognitive | dealing with how we know the world around us through our senses; mental |
| cognizant | aware; conscious |
| coherent | holding together; making sense |
| colloquial | conversational; informal in language |
| collusion | conspiracy; secret cooperation |
| commensurate | equal; proportionate |
| compelling | forceful; causing to yield |
| compendium | a summary; an abridgment |
| complacent | self-satisfied; overly pleased with oneself; contented to a fault |
| complement | to complete or fill up; to be the perfect counterpart |
| complicity | participation in wrongdoing; the act of being an accomplice |
| comprehensive | covering or including everything |
| comprise | to consist of |
| compose | make up |
| constitute | make up |
| conciliatory | making peace; attempting to resolve a dispute through goodwill |
| concise | brief and to the point; succinct |
| concord | harmony; agreement |
| discord | disharmony; opposite of concord |
| concurrent | happening at the same time; parallel |
| condescend | to stoop to someone else's level, usually in an offensive way; to patronize |
| condone | to overlook; to permit to happen |
| conducive | promoting |
| confluence | flowing together, especially of rivers; the place where they begin to flow together |
| congenial | agreeably suitable; pleasant |
| congenital | describing a trait or condition acquired between conception and birth; innate |
| conjecture | to guess; to deduce or infer on slight evidence |
| conjure | to summon or bring into being as if by magic |
| connoisseur | an expert, particularly in matters of art or taste |
| consecrate | to make or declare sacred |
| desecrate | to treat irreverently |
| consensus | unanimity or general agreement |
| consonant | harmonious; in agreement |
| dissonant | incompatible |
| construe | to interpret |
| consummate | perfect; complete; supremely skillful |
| contentious | argumentative; quarrelsome |
| contiguous | side by side; adjoining |
| contingent | dependent; possible |
| contrite | admitting guilt; especially feeling remorseful |
| contrived | artificial; labored |
| conventional | common; customary; unexceptional |
| convivial | fond of partying; festive |
| copious | abundent; plentiful |
| corollary | something that follows; a natural consequence |
| corroborate | to confirm; to back up with evidence |
| cosmopolitan | at home in many places or situations; internationally sophisticated |
| countenance | face; facial expression, especially an encouraging one |
| coup | a brilliant victory or accomplishment; the violent overthrow of a government by a small internal group |
| covenant | a solemn agreement; a contract; a pledge |
| covert | secret; hidden |
| covet | to wish for enviously |
| credulous | eager to believe; gullible |
| credible | believable |
| incredible | cannot be believed |
| incredulous | don't believe |
| creditable | worthy of credit or praise |
| credence | belief or intellectual acceptance |
| criterion | standard; basis for judgment |
| cryptic | mysterious; mystifying |
| culinary | relating to cooking or the kitchen |
| culminate | to climax; to reach full effect |
| culpable | deserving blame; guilty |
| exculpate | free from guilt |
| cursory | hasty; superficial |
| curtail | to shorten; to cut short |
| cynic | one who deeply distrusts human nature; one who believes humans are motivated only by selfishness |
| daunt | to make fearful; to intimidate |
| dearth | lack; scarcity |
| debacle | violent breakdown; sudden overthrow; overwhelming defeat |
| debauchery | wild living; excessive intemperance |
| debilitate | to weaken; to cripple |
| decadent | decaying or decayed, especially in terms of morals |
| decimate | to kill or destroy a large part of |
| decorous | proper; in good taste; orderly |
| deduce | to conclude from the evidence; to infer |
| defame | to libel or slander; to ruin the good name of |
| deference | submission to another's will; respect; courtesy |
| definitive | conclusive; providing the last word |
| degenerate | to break down; to deteriorate |
| deleterious | harmful |
| delineate | to describe accurately; to draw in outline |
| delude | to deceive |
| deluge | a flood; an inundation |
| demagogue | a leader of the people, but more a rabble rouser |
| denizen | inhabitant |
| depravity | extreme wickedness or corruption |
| deprecate | to express disapproval of |
| deride | to ridicule; to laugh at contemptuously |
| derogatory | disapproving; degrading |
| desiccate | to dry out |
| despondent | extremely depressed; full of despair |
| despot | an absolute ruler; an autocrat |
| destitute | extremely poor; utterly lacking |
| desultory | without a plan or purpose; disconnected; random |
| dialectical | relating to discussions; relating to the rules and methods of reasoning; approaching truth in the middle of opposing extremes |
| dictum | an authoritative saying; an adage; a maxim; a proverb |
| didactic | intended to teach; morally instructive; pedantic |
| diffident | timid; lacking in self-confidence |
| digress | to stray from the main subject |
| dilettante | someone with superficial knowledge of the arts; an amateur; a dabbler |
| discern | to have insight; to see things clearly; to discriminate; to differentiate |
| discreet | prudent; judiciously reserved |
| discrete | unconnected; separate; distinct |
| indiscrete | not separated or sorted |
| discriminate | to notice or point out the difference between two or more things; to discern; to differentiate |
| disdain | arrogant scorn; contempt |
| disinterested | not taking sides; unbiased |
| disparage | to belittle; to say uncomplimentary things about, usually in a somewhat indirect way |
| disparate | different; incompatible; unequal |
| disseminate | to spread the seeds of something; to scatter; to make widely known |
| dissipate | to thin out, drift away, or dissolve; to cause to thin out, drift away, or dissolve; to waste or squander |
| dissolution | the breaking up or dissolving of something into parts; disintegration |
| distend | to swell; to extend a great deal |
| distinguish | to tell apart; to cause to stand out |
| docile | easily taught; obedient; easy to handle |
| doctrinaire | inflexibly committed to a doctrine or theory without regard to its practicality; dogmatic |
| dogmatic | arrogantly assertive of unproven ideas, stubbornly claiming that something (often a system of beliefs) is beyond dispute |
| dogma | firmly held system of ideas |
| domestic | having to do with the household or family, not foreign |
| dormant | inactive; as though asleep; asleep |
| dubious | full of doubt; uncertain |
| duplicity | the act of being two-faced; double-dealing; deception |
| ebullient | boiling; bubbling with excitement; exuberant |
| eccentric | not conventional; a little kooky; irregular |
| eclectic | choosing the best from may sources; drawn from many sources |
| edify | to enlighten; to instruct, especially in moral or religious matters |
| efface | to erase; to rub away the features of |
| effusion | a pouring forth |
| egalitarian | believing in the social and economic equality of all people |
| egocentric | selfish; believing that one is the center of everything |
| egotist | self-obsessed person |
| egregious | extremely bad; flagrant |
| elicit | to bring out; to call forth |
| elliptical | oval; missing a word or words; obscure |
| elusive | hard to pin down; evasive |
| emigrate | to move to a new country; to move to a new place to live; to expatriate |
| immigrate | to arrive in one country from another |
| eminent | well-known and respected; standing out from all others in quality or accomplishment; outstanding |
| empirical | relying on experience or observation; not merely theoretical |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel, usually through imitation |
| encroach | to make gradual or stealthy inroads into; to trespass |
| endemic | native; restricted to a particular region or era; indigenous |
| enervate | to reduce the strength or energy of, especially to do so gradually |
| enfranchise | to grant the privileges of citizenship, especially the right to vote |
| disfranchise | to take away the privileges of citizenship or take away the right to vote |
| engender | to bring into existence; to create; to cause |
| enigma | a mystery |
| enormity | extreme evil; a hideous offence; immensity |
| ephemeral | lasting a very short time |
| epigram | a brief and usually witty or satirical saying |
| epigraph | an apt quotation placed at the beginning of a book or essay |
| epitaph | a commemorative inscription on a grave |
| epithet | a term used to characterize the nature of something; sometimes a disparaging term used to describe a persone |
| epitome | a brief summary that captures the meaning of the whole; the perfect example of something; a paradigm |
| equanimity | composure; calm |
| equitable | fair |
| equivocal | ambiguous; intentionally confusing; capable of being interpreted in more than one way |
| equivocate | to mislead by saying confusing or ambiguous things |
| erudite | scholarly; deeply learned |
| esoteric | hard to understand; understood by only a select few; peculiar |
| espouse | to support; to advocate |
| ethereal | heavenly; as light and insubstantial as a gas or ether |
| euphemism | a pleasant or inoffensive expression used in place of an unpleasant or offensive one |
| evanescent | fleeting; vanishing; happening for only the briefest period |
| exacerbate | to make worse |
| exacting | extremely demanding; difficult; requiring great skill or care |
| exalt | to raise high; to glorify |
| exasperate | to annoy thoroughly; to make very angry; to try the patience of |
| exemplify | to illustrate by example; to serve as a good example |
| exhaustive | thorough; rigorous; complete; painstaking |
| exhort | to urge strongly; to give a serious warning to |
| exigency | an emergency; an urgency |
| existential | having to do with existence; having to do with the body of thought called existentialism, which basically holds that human beings are responsible for their own actions but is otherwise too complicated to summarize in a single sentence |
| exonerate | to free completely from blame; to exculpate |
| expatriate | to throw (someone) out of his or her native land; to move away from one's native land; to emigrate |
| expedient | providing an immediate advantage; serving one's immediate self-interest; practical |
| expedite | to speed up or ease the progress of |
| explicit | clearly and directly expressed |
| implicit | indirectly expressed or implied |
| extol | to praise hightly; to laud |
| extraneous | unnecessary; irrelevant; extra |
| extrapolate | to project or deduce from something known; to infer |
| extricate | to free from difficulty |
| extrovert | an open, outgoing person; a person whose attention is focused on others rather on himself or herself |
| introvert | a person whose attention is directed inward and who is concerned with little outside himself or herself |
| exult | to rejoice; to celebrate |
| fabrication | a lie; something made up |
| facetious | humorous; not serious; clumsily humorous |
| facile | fluent; skillful in a superficial way; easy |
| faction | a group, usually a small part of a larger group, united around some cause; disagreement within an organization |
| farcical | absurd; ludicrous |
| fastidious | meticulous; demanding; finicky |
| fatalist | someone who believes that future events are already determined and that humans are powerless to change them |
| fatuous | foolish; silly; idiotic |
| fauna | animals |
| flora | plants |
| fecund | fertile; productive |
| felicity | happiness; skillfulness, especially at expressing things; adeptness |
| fervor | great warmth or earnestness; ardor; zeal |
| fetter | to restrain; to hamper |
| fidelity | faithfulness; loyalty |
| figurative | based on figures of speech; expressing something in terms usually used for something else; metaphorical |
| literal | meaning exactly what it says |
| finesse | skillful maneuvering; subtlety; craftiness |
| flagrant | glaringly bad; notorious; scandalous |
| fluant | to show off; to display ostentatiously |
| flout | to disregard something out of disrespect |
| foible | a minor character flaw |
| foment | to stir up; to instigate |
| forbear | to refrain from; to abstain |
| forego | to do without; to forbear |
| forsake | to abandon; to renounce; to relinquish |
| fortuitous | accidental; occurring by chance |
| founder | to fail; to collapse; to sink |
| flounder | to move clumsily or in confusion |
| fraternal | like brothers |
| frenetic | frantic; frenzied |
| frugal | economical; penny-pinching |
| furtive | secretive; sly |
| futile | useless; hopeless |
| garrulous | talkative; chatty |
| genre | a type or category, especially of art or writing |
| genteel | refined; polite; aristocratic; affecting refinement |
| gesticulate | to make gestures, especially when speaking or in place of speaking |
| glut | surplus; an overabundance |
| grandiloquent | pompous; using a lot of big, fancy words in an attempt to sound impressive |
| grandiose | absurdly exaggerated |
| gratuitous | given freely (said of something bad); unjustified; unprovoke; uncalled for |
| gravity | seriousness |
| gregarious | sociable; enjoying the company of others |
| guile | cunning; duplicity; artfulness |
| hackneyed | overused; trite; stale |
| hapless | unlucky |
| harbinger | a forerunner; a signal of |
| hedonism | the pursuit of pleasure as a way of life |
| hegemony | leadership, especially of one nation over another |
| heresy | any belief that is strongly opposed to established beliefs |
| hermetic | impervious to external influence; airtight |
| heyday | golden age; prime |
| hiatus | a break or interruption, often from work |
| hierarchy | an organization based on rank or degree; pecking order |
| histronic | overly dramatic; theatrical |
| homily | a sermon |
| homogeneous | uniform; made entirely of one thing |
| heterogeneous | mixed or varied |
| husbandry | thrifty management of resources; livestock farming |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration used as a figure of speech; exaggeration |
| hypothetical | uncertain; unproven |
| iconoclast | one who attacks popular beliefs or institutions |
| ideology | a system of social or political ideas |
| idiosyncrasy | a peculiarity; an eccentricity |
| idyllic | charming in a rustic way; naturally peaceful |
| ignominy | deep disgrace |
| illicit | illegal; not permitted |
| imminent | just about to happen |
| immutable | unchangable |
| impartial | fair; not favoring one side or the other; unbiased |
| impeccable | flawless; entirely without sin |
| imperial | like an emperor or an empire |
| imperious | bossy and arrogant |
| impervious | not allowing anything to pass through; impenetrable |
| impetuous | impulsive; extremely impatient |
| implement | to carry out |
| impotent | powerless; helpless; unable to perform sexual intercourse |
| impugn | to attack, especially to attack the truth or integrity of something |
| inane | silly; senseless |
| inaugurate | to begin officially; to induct formally into office |
| incandescent | brilliant; giving off heat or light |
| incantation | a chant; the repetition of statements or phrases in a way reminiscent of a chant |
| incense | to make very angry |
| incessant | unceasing |
| incipient | beginning; emerging |
| incisive | cutting right to the heart of the matter |
| incongruous | not harmonious; not consistent; not appropriate; not fitting in |
| incorrigible | incapable of being reformed |
| increment | an increase; one in a series of increases |
| indifferent | not caring one way or the other; apathetic; mediocre |
| indigenous | native; originating in that area |
| indigent | poor |
| indignant | angry, especially as a result of something unjust or unworthy; insulted |
| indolent | lazy |
| indulgent | lenient; yielding to desire |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed or described |
| inept | clumsy; incompetent; gauche |
| inert | inactive; sluggish; not reacting chemically |
| inexorable | relentless; inevitable; unavoidable |
| infamous | shamefully wicked; having an extremely bad reputation; disgraceful |
| infatuated | foolish; foolishly passionate or attracted; made foolish; foolishly in love |
| infer | to conclude; to deduce |
| imply | to hint at it, suggest it, or state it indirectly |
| infinitesimal | very, very, very small; infinitely small |
| ingenuous | frank; without deception; simple; artless; charmingly naive |
| inherent | part of the essential nature of something |
| injunction | a command or order, especially a court order |
| innate | existing since birth; inborn; inherent |
| innocuous | harmless; banal |
| inordinate | excessive; unreasonable |
| instatiable | hard or impossible to satisfy; greedy; avaricious |
| insidious | treacherous; sneaky |
| insinuate | to hint; to creep in |
| insipid | dull; bland; banal |
| insolent | arrogant; insulting |
| instigate | to provoke; to stir up |
| insular | like an island; isolated |
| insurgent | a rebel; someone who revolts against a government |
| integral | essential |
| intractable | uncontrollable; stubborn; disobedient |
| intransigent | uncompromising; stubborn |
| intrinsic | part of the essential nature of something; inherent |
| introspective | tending to think about oneself; examining one's feelings |
| inundate | to flood; to cover completely with water; to overwhelm |
| invective | insulting or abusive speech |
| inveterate | habitual; firm in habit; deeply rooted |
| irascible | easily angered or provoked; irritable |
| ironic | meaning the opposite of what you seem to say; using words to mean something other than what they seem to mean |
| irrevocable | irreversible |
| itinerant | moving from place to place |
| itinerary | planned route or schedule of a trip |
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