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Usage

• ingress

  Ingress is the action of entering a place, the entrance itself, or the right or permission to enter a place.

• insinuation

  If someone makes an insinuation, they say something bad or unpleasant in a sly and indirect way.

• incumbent

  If it is incumbent upon you to do something, it is your duty or responsibility to do it.

• intone

  If someone is intoning something, they are saying it in a slow and serious way without making their voice rise or fall.

• inundate

  If you are inundated with something, you have so much of it that you cannot easily deal with it; likewise, if too much rain inundates an area, it causes flooding.

• inveterate

  An inveterate person is always doing a particular thing, especially something questionable—and they are not likely to stop doing it.

• indoctrinate

  If you indoctrinate someone, you teach them a set of beliefs so thoroughly that they reject any other beliefs or ideas without any critical thought.

• incipient

  An incipient situation or quality is just beginning to appear or develop.

• incisive

  If an idea or thought is incisive, it is expressed in a penetrating and knowledgeable manner that is clear and brief; additionally, it can demonstrate impressive understanding of related ideas or thoughts.

• disinter

  When someone disinters a dead body, they dig it up; likewise, something disinterred is exposed or revealed to the public after having been hidden for some time.

• ingratiate

  If people try to ingratiate themselves with you, they try to get your approval by doing or saying things that they think will please you.

• incarcerate

  If you incarcerate someone, you put them in prison or jail.

• inculcate

  To inculcate is to fix an idea or belief in someone's mind by repeatedly teaching it.

• insidious

  Something that is insidious is dangerous because it seems harmless or not important; nevertheless, over time it gradually develops the capacity to cause harm and damage.

• inebriated

  An inebriated person has had too much alcohol; by extension, if someone is inebriated with an emotion or feeling, they are filled with it—and possibly excited or confused by it too.

• incendiary

  An incendiary device causes objects to catch on fire; incendiary comments can cause riots to flare up.

• inception

  An inception of something is its beginning or start.

• incursion

  An incursion is an unpleasant intrusion, such as a sudden hostile attack or a land being flooded.

• induce

  To induce a state is to bring it about; to induce someone to do something is to persuade them to do it.

• inductive

  Inductive reasoning involves the observation of data to arrive at a general conclusion or principle.

• inference

  An inference is a conclusion that is reached using available data.

• infiltrate

  When a spy infiltrates enemy lines, they creep in or penetrate them so as to gather information.

• inflammable

  An inflammable substance or person's temper is easily set on fire.

• inflection

  An inflection is a change or variation, such as in a person's voice or in the form a noun or verb takes.

• infringe

  To infringe on another person's rights is to violate or intrude upon those rights.

• infusion

  An infusion is the introduction or pouring of one thing into another—such as new ideas brought into a workplace or poured purple dye spreading throughout a glass of water.

• ingrained

  Something that has been ingrained in your mind has been fixed or rooted there permanently.

• inherent

  An inherent characteristic is one that exists in a person at birth or in a thing naturally.

• initiate

  To initiate something is to begin or start it.

• innate

  An innate quality of someone is present since birth or is a quality of something that is essential to it.

• inquisitive

  If you are inquisitive, you are eager to learn and highly curious—sometimes too much so.

• instigate

  When you instigate something, you start it or stir it up, usually for the purpose of causing trouble of some kind.

• intrusive

  An intrusive person intrudes, butts in, or interferes where they are not welcome.

• reinstate

  When you reinstate someone, you give back their job or position that they lost; this word also refers to restoring to use something that was no longer being used.

• incorporate

  When you incorporate one thing into another, you add it so that it becomes a part of it.

• inclined

  When you are inclined to do something, you are willing or prefer to do it.

• reinforce

  When you reinforce something, you make it stronger or give extra support to it.

• incidental

  Something incidental refers to a minor occurrence that is related to something more important.

• coincide

  When two things coincide, they go along with each other, match, or happen at the same time.

• incident

  An incident is something that happens that is usually unpleasant.

• intend

  If you intend to do something, you plan on doing it.

• incline

  An incline is an area or surface that can go up or down; it has a slope that rises or falls.

• ingredient

  An ingredient is one thing that is put into something that helps make it, such as chocolate in a cake.

• inspire

  If someone inspires you, they make you want to do something, such as be a better person, do something creative, or be like them in a good way.

• investigation

  An investigation is seeking information about something that happened.

• instant

  Something that happens in an instant way happens right away or with no time passing at all.

• insert

  When you insert something, you put it into something else.

• involved

  When someone is involved in an activity, they take part in it or do it often.

• inspect

  When you inspect something, you look at it closely to find out something about it.

• invade

  When one country invades another, it goes into it to attack it.

• encouraging

  giving courage or confidence or hope

• illumination

  a condition of spiritual awareness

• incarceration

  the state of being imprisoned

• incarnation

  a new personification of a familiar idea

• inculpate

  suggest that someone is guilty

• influx

  the process of flowing in

• inject

  give an injection to

• inscribe

  carve, cut, or etch into a material or surface

• invasive

  relating to a technique in which the body is entered by puncture or incision

• invoke

  summon into action or bring into existence, often as if by magic