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  • ideal: existing in idea or thought; conception; intellectual; mental; imaginary standard of excellence; fit for a model; faultless
  • identical: duplicate; alike; being the exact same one
  • identification: act of designating or identifying something; condition of having your identity established
  • identify: detect; find out; discover
  • identity: exact sameness; distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity
  • idiom: expression whose meaning differs from meanings of its individual words; distinctive style
  • idiomatic: having the nature of an idiom; characteristic of a given language
  • idiot: foolish or stupid person; unlearned, ignorant, or simple person
  • idle: useless; vain; trifling; unprofitable; thoughtless; given rest and ease; avoiding work or employment; lazy
  • idol: image used for worship; image of divinity; representation or symbol; false notion or conception
  • ignite: kindle; cause to start burning; set fire to
  • ignorance: lack of knowledge or education
  • ignorant: lacking education or knowledge; unaware
  • ignore: refuse to pay attention to; disregard; overlook; neglect
  • illegible: incapable of being read; unclear; not legible
  • illiterate: uncultured; uneducated; not able to read or write
  • illuminate: provide or brighten with light; clear up or make understandable; enlighten
  • illusion: misleading vision; being deceived by a false perception or belief
  • illusive: deceptive; misleading; based on or having the nature of an illusion
  • illustrate: represent; demonstrate; depict; clarify, as by use of examples or comparisons
  • illustration: picture; drawing; showing by example
  • image: visual representation; representation of a person
  • imaginary: having existence only in the imagination; fanciful; visionary
  • imitate: copy the actions, appearance, mannerisms, or speech of; mimic; use or follow as a model
  • imitation: emulation; copying the actions of someone else
  • immediate: not deferred by an interval of time; present; occurring at once; instant
  • immediately: proximately; directly; without interval of time; without delay; promptly; instantly; at once
  • immense: enormous; boundless; so great as to be beyond measurement
  • immerse: plunge into anything, especially a fluid; sink; dip
  • immigrant: one who comes to a country where they were not born in order to settle there; non-native immigrate: move into another country to stay there permanently
  • immigration: migration into a place; moving into a place
  • imminent: near at hand; close in time; about to occur
  • immoral: not moral; contrary to conscience or the divine law; wicked; unjust; dishonest
  • immortal: not mortal; exempt from liability to die; undying; imperishable; lasting forever
  • impact: forceful consequence; strong effect; influencing strongly
  • impart: reveal or tell; grant a share of; bestow
  • impartial: not biased; fair; showing lack of favoritism
  • imperative: having power command or control; critically importance; some duty that is essential and urgent
  • implement: put into effect; supply with tools
  • implication: something hinted at or suggested; act of implying; condition of being implied
  • implore: beg for urgently; make an earnest appeal
  • imply: express or indicate indirectly; signify
  • import: bring in from another country
  • impose: demand; force; compel to behave in a certain way
  • impractical: unwise to implement or maintain in practice; theoretical
  • impressive: making a strong or vivid impression; producing a strong effect
  • imprisonment: confinement; putting someone in prison or in jail as lawful punishment
  • impulse: act of applying force suddenly; an impelling force or strength
  • inability: lack of ability, especially mental ability, to do something
  • inaccessible: unreachable; not available; unattainable
  • inadequate: not sufficient to meet a need; insufficient; poor
  • inaugurate: start; initiate; induct into office by formal ceremony
  • incense: enrage; infuriate; cause to be extremely angry
  • incentive: something, such as the fear of punishment or the expectation of reward
  • incident: usually minor event or condition that is subordinate to another; event; happening
  • incidentally: by chance; accidentally
  • inclination: preference; tendency; inclined surface; slope
  • incline: cause to lean, slant, or slope; deviate from the horizontal or vertical
  • inclined: tending or leaning toward; bent; having preference or tendency
  • inclusive: tending to include all; taking a great deal or everything within its scope
  • income: gain from labor, business, property, or capital
  • incompatible: inharmonious; impossible to coexist; not easy to combine harmoniously
  • inconsistency: state of being self-contradictory; lack of uniformity or steadiness
  • inconvenient: not suited to your comfort, purpose or needs
  • incorporate: combine something into a larger whole; unite
  • incredible: unbelievable; beyond belief or understanding
  • incredulous: difficult to believe; incredible; skeptical
  • increment: process of increasing in number, size, quantity, or extent
  • incur: bring upon oneself; become liable to; acquire or come into
  • indebted: morally, socially, or legally obligated to another; under a legal obligation to someone indefinite: unclear; vague; lacking precise limits
  • indefinitely: endlessly; incessantly; for a long time, no end defined; forever
  • indent: nick; set in from margin; impress or stamp
  • independent: not dependent; free; not subject to control by others; not relying on others
  • index: anything which shows, indicates, manifests, or discloses; prologue indicating what follows; second digit
  • indicate: point out; direct to a knowledge of
  • indicative: suggestive; implying; serving to indicate
  • indifference: unconcern; disinterest; lack of enthusiasm
  • indifferent: having no particular interest or concern; being neither good nor bad
  • indigestion: a disorder of digestive function; difficulty in digesting
  • indignant: affected with indignation; wrathful; passionate; irate; feeling wrath by unworthy or unjust treatment
  • indignation: anger aroused by something unjust
  • indispensable: essential; requisite; impossible to be omitted or remitted
  • individual: single person or thing; human regarded as a unique personality
  • induce: persuade; bring about; reason or establish by induction
  • inducement: act of inducing, or the state of being induced; a motive or consideration that leads one to action or induces one to act
  • indulge: be complacent toward; give way to; not to oppose or restrain; yield to the desire of industrial: of or relating to or resulting from industry; having highly developed industries industrialization: development of industry on an extensive scale
  • industrialized: made industrial; converted to industrialism
  • industrious: diligent; hard-working; busy and laborious
  • inertia: property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction
  • inevitable: unavoidable; incapable of being avoided or prevented
  • inevitably: unavoidably; in a manner that is impossible to avoid or prevent
  • infant: child in the first period of life; young babe
  • infantry: body of children; a body of soldiers serving on foot; foot soldiers
  • infect: bring into contact with a substance that can cause illness
  • infection: moral corruption or contamination; invasion of body which can lead to tissue damage and disease
  • infectious: contagious; contaminating
  • infer: deduce; conclude from evidence or premises; lead to as a consequence or conclusion inference: inferring by deduction or induction; truth or proposition drawn from another which is admitted or supposed to be true; conclusion; deduction
  • inferior: poor; lower than a given reference point; low or lower in order, degree, or rank
  • inferiority: state of being lower than or not as good as
  • infinite: unlimited or boundless, in time or space; without limit in power, capacity, knowledge, or excellence
  • infinity: unlimited extent of time, space, or quantity; eternity; boundlessness; immensity
  • inflation: general increase in the prices of goods and services in a country
  • inflict: impose something unpleasant; cause
  • influence: power affecting person or thing; effect of one thing on another; flowing in or upon; influx influential: important; powerful; having or exercising influence or power
  • influenza: an acute febrile highly contagious viral disease
  • inform: impart information to; make aware of something; be a pervasive presence in; animate informal: absence of ceremony; casual
  • informative: instructive; illustrative; providing or conveying information
  • infringe: act contrary to, as a law, right, or obligation; annul or hinder
  • ingenious: clever; having inventive or cunning mind
  • ingenuity: quality or power of ready invention; quickness or acuteness in forming new combinations inhabit: live in; occupy; reside in
  • inhabitant: resident; someone or thing who lives in a place
  • inherent: firmly established by nature or habit
  • inherit: receive from an ancestor by legal succession or will; receive by bequest or as a legacy
  • initial: early; preliminary; occurring at the beginning
  • initially: in the beginning; at first
  • initiate: begin; originate; admit into membership
  • initiative: serving to initiate; introductory step or movement; act which originates or begins
  • inject: put in; infuse ; force or drive fluid into something
  • injure: do harm to; inflict damage; do injustice to
  • injury: any physical damage to body caused by violence or accident or fracture
  • injustice: unjust act; practice of being unjust or unfair
  • inland: within the land; more or less remote from the ocean or from open water; interior
  • innocent: naive; lacking sense or awareness; free from evil or guilt
  • innovate: change or alter by bringing in something new
  • innovation: introduction of something new
  • innumerable: countless; numerous
  • inquire: ask a question; seek for truth or information by putting queries
  • inquiry: investigation; search for knowledge
  • insane: exhibiting disordered of mind; deranged in mind; very foolish
  • insert: input; enter; put or set into, between, or among
  • insider: an accepted member of a group; one who has special knowledge or access to confidential information
  • insight: understanding; grasping the inner nature of things intuitively
  • insignificant: not large enough to consider or notice; lacking in importance; trivial
  • insist: stand or rest; find support; take a stand and refuse to give way; be persistent
  • insolvent: bankrupt; unable to repay one’s debts
  • inspect: look over; examine carefully and critically, especially for flaws
  • inspection: formal or official examination
  • inspector: high ranking police officer; investigator who observes carefully
  • inspiration: sudden intuition as part of solving a problem; arousing to a particular emotion or action
  • inspire: encourage; inspirit; fire the imagination of
  • install: set up; connect or set in position and prepare for use
  • installation: act of installing or giving possession of an office, rank, or order, with the usual rites or ceremonies; the whole of a system of machines, apparatus, and accessories
  • installment: monthly payment; a part of a published serial
  • instance: example that is cited to prove a contention or illustrate a point; case or occurrence
  • instinct: inborn pattern of behavior ; nature
  • instinctive: unthinking; prompted by instinct; spontaneous
  • institute: advance or set forth in court; association organized to promote art or science or education institution: institute; organization; introducing something new
  • instruct: teach; make aware of
  • instruction: direction; teaching; activities of educating or instructing
  • instructive: serving to instruct of enlighten or inform; enlightening
  • instrument: tool; one used by another to accomplish a purpose; device used to produce music; legal document
  • instrumental: serving or acting as a means or aid; helpful; relating to musical instruments insufficient: of a quantity not able to fulfill a need or requirement
  • insulate: make an island of; place in a detached situation, or in a state having no communication with surrounding objects; isolate; separate
  • insulation: act of insulating; separation; state of being detached, from other objects
  • insult: offend; affront; treat, mention, or speak to rudely
  • insurance: protection against future loss; act, business, or system of insuring
  • insure: make sure or secure, specifically against loss by a contingent event; give or take insurance on
  • intangible: not able to be perceived by senses, as touch; vague
  • integral: essential or necessary for completeness; entire
  • integrate: make whole; combine; make into one unit
  • integrity: quality or condition of being whole or undivided; completeness
  • intellect: ability to learn and reason; ability to think abstractly or profoundly
  • intellectual: of intellect; showing intellect; requiring the use of the mind, rather than emotions or instinct
  • intelligence: ability to comprehend; understand and profit from experience; intellect; power of cognition
  • intelligent: ingenious; wise; bright; having a high degree of intelligence; mentally acute
  • intense: extreme; acute; in an extreme degree
  • intensive: thorough; concentrated; tending to give force or emphasis
  • intent: something that is intended; aim or purpose
  • intention: motive; with respect to marriage; aim that guides action
  • interact: interplay; act together or towards others or with
  • interaction: communication; a mutual or reciprocal action; interacting
  • interest: attention; curiosity; dividend; yield
  • interfere: disrupt; hinder; be or create a hindrance or obstacle
  • interference: obstruction; prevention; act or an instance of hindering, obstructing, or impeding
  • interior: inside; inner part; internal; inner
  • intermediate: middle; lying between two extremes
  • internal: inside; interior; located within the limits or surface
  • interpret: explain or tell the meaning of; translate orally; decipher
  • interpretation: explanation; performer’s distinctive personal version of a song, dance, piece of music interrupt: terminate; make a break in
  • interval: pause; break; space between two objects, points, or units
  • intervene: get involved; come, appear, or lie between two things
  • intimate: give to understand; imply as a possibility; make known subtly and indirectly
  • intrude: trespass; enter as an uninvited person
  • inundate: overwhelm; cover with water, especially floodwaters
  • invade: move into; intrude; enter by force in order to conquer or pillage
  • invader: one who invades; assailant; encroacher; intruder
  • invalid: of no force or weight; not valid; weak; void; null
  • invalidate: make invalid; nullify; destroy
  • invaluable: valuable under estimation; inestimable; priceless
  • invariably: constantly; always
  • invasion: raid; attack; act of invading, especially the entrance of an armed force into a territory to conquer
  • inverse: opposite; reversed in order, nature, or effect; turned upside down
  • invest: put clothe on, as with office or authority; place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; endow; lay out money or capital in business
  • investigate: explore; observe or inquire into in detail; examine systematically
  • investigation: detailed inquiry or systematic examination; inquiry
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  • invisible: incapable of being seen; impossible or nearly impossible to see
  • invoice: bill; commercial document issued by seller to buyer indicating the products, quantities and prices
  • involve: wind round; connect with something; include necessarily; engage thoroughly
  • irony: expression by deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning; witty language used to insult
  • irregular: contrary to rule or accepted order or general practice; inconstant
  • irresistible: overwhelming; tempting; charming
  • irrespective: without regard for conditions, circumstances, or consequences; unbiased; independent
  • irrevocable: unalterable; irreversible; impossible to retract or revoke
  • irrigate: supply land with water artificially; clean a wound with a fluid
  • irrigation: supplying water to the land to help crops grow
  • irritate: rouse to impatience or anger; annoy; provoke
  • isolate: seclude; set apart or cut off from others
  • isolation: separation; detachment; quality or condition of being isolated
  • issue: subject; topic; problem; edition; publication; release; publish
  • item: a whole individual unit; a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group
  • ivory: teeth of elephant

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