Webster Essential Vocabulary

Quick Review #47.

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

I: SAT Words 137

1. indomitable


2. ineffable


3. inefficacious


4. inefficient


5. inexorable


6. infer


7. infinite


8. inflammatory


9. influence


10. information


11. inhibit


12. innocuous

a. incapable

b. indicate

c. power

d. innocent

e. provocative

f. retard

g. intelligence

h. ineffective

i. unbeatable

j. unrelenting

k. overwhelming

l. endless

innovative(IN OH vay tiv) adj.1. the act or process of finding new methods;

2. a new method, custom, device, etc.
   
   
   • Luther Burbank was an innovativeperson who bred many new varieties of
     fruits, vegetables, and flowers.
   
   
   • Freeze-drying is an innovativeway of preserving foods, invented in the sec-
     ond half of the twentieth century.
     [-ly adv.]
     inordinate(in AWR din it) adj.1. not regulated or orderly; 2. lacking in moder-
     ation; too great
   
   
   • There are an inordinatenumber of bakeries throughout the United States.
   
   
   • An inordinatenumber of students are not up-to-date on completing their
     homework assignments.
     [-ly adv.] [Syn. excessive]
     inquiry(IN kwir ee orin KWY ree) n.1. the act of seeking information; 2. an
     investigation or looking at something; 3. a question or questioning
   
   
   • Marshall made an inquiryamong his new neighbors before deciding on
     where to bank.
   
   
   • An inquiryby the NHTSA followed the oil truck accident.
   
   
   • The grocery cashier made an inquiryof each of her customers as to whether
     (s)he had found everything (s)he came to buy.