Webster Essential Vocabulary

Quick Review #45.

Match the word from column 2 with the word from column 1 that means most
nearly the same thing.

132 Essential Vocabulary

1. impermanent


2. impetuous


3. impious


4. implement


5. implication


6. imply


7. impound


8. impression


9. impressive


10. improve


11. impugn


12. impulse

a. deny

b. better

c. involvement

d. wondrous

e. idea

f. thrust

g. sudden

h. utensil

i. temporary

j. suggest

k. irreverent

l. seize

impute (im PYOOT) vt.to ascribe; to attribute (especially a fault or bad deed) to
someone; to charge with

• Film historians imputethe phrase “Never give a sucker an even break” to
  W. C. Fields.


• Bugsy Seagal is imputedwith being the first to recognize Las Vegas as a
  potential vacation destination.


• Chicago’s bloody gang wars of the early twentieth century are often imput-
  edto Al Capone.
  [-d, imputing] [Syn. ascribe]
  incinerator*(in SIN oer AY tir) n.someone or thing (especially a high-
  temperature furnace) that is used to burn things (from the verb, incinerate)


• The man or woman burning the fallen leaves in a garbage can to get rid of
  them is probably the most universally known incinerator.


• Commercial incineratorsare today required to meet standards to limit pol-
  lutants escaping into the air.
  incompatible(IN kuhm PAT i bil) adj.1. not able to exist in harmony; not get-
  ting along well together; inharmonious; 2. two or more jobs that cannot be held at
  the same time by the same person; 3. contradictory tenets or positions


• A 220V air conditioner’s plug is incompatiblewith a 115V electrical outlet,
  grounded or otherwise.


• The jobs of prosecutor and judge are totally incompatible—you can’t do
  both simultaneously.


• Contrary to popular myth, cats are far from incompatiblewith dogs.
  [incompatibly adv., incompatibility n.]