Webster Essential Vocabulary

incessant(in SES int) adj. never ceasing; seemingly never ending

• The blaring of boom boxes at certain beaches is incessant.


• Rebecca’s mom seems to have an incessantneed to remind her to watch
  what she eats.
  [-ly adv.] [Syn. continual, constant]
  inchoate(in KOH it) adj. 1. not fully formed; disorganized; 2. in the early
  stages; incipient


• Julio’s term paper is still at the inchoatestage, mostly on index cards.


• A six-week-old fetus is inchoatein its development.
  [-ly adv.] [Syn. rudimentary]

Quick Review #107.

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

296 Essential Vocabulary

1. iconoclast


2. idyll


3. igneous


4. immaculate


5. impede


6. impenetrability


7. imperious


8. imperturbable


9. impinge


10. implacable


11. implausible


12. implosion


13. inadvertent


14. incessant


15. inchoate

a. masterful

b. revolutionary

c. unintentional

d. collapse

e. unlikely

f. volcanic

g. unflawed

h. encroach

i. impassive

j. hinder

k. inflexible

l. denseness

m. rudimentary

n. poem

o. constant