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INI'MITABLE, _a._ not able to be imitated; that which is incapable of imitation
INJU'RIOUS, _a._ hurtful; baneful; capable of injuring; that which injures; destructive
INJU'STICE, _s._ iniquity; wrong
INNU'MEROUS, _a._ innumerable; too many to be counted
INQUI'SITIVE, _a._ curious; busy in search; active to pry into everything
INSCRI'PTION, _s._ something written or engraved; t.i.tle
I'NSECT, _s._ a small animal. Insects are so called from a separation in the middle of their bodies, whereby they are cut into two parts, which are joined together by a small ligature, as we see in wasps and common flies
INSE'NSIBLY, _ad._ imperceptibly; in such a manner as is not discovered by the senses
INSE'RT, _v.a._ place in or among other things
INSI'DIOUS, _a._ sly; diligent to entrap; treacherous
INSI'GNIA, _s._ ensigns; arms
INSIGNI'FICANT, _a._ unimportant
INSI'PID, _a._ tasteless; void of taste
INSIPI'DITY, _s._ want of taste; want of life or spirit
I'NSOLENCE, _s._ petulant contempt
INSPE'CT, _v.a._ to examine; to look over
INSPE'CTION, _s._ prying examination; superintendence
INSPIRA'TION, _s._ infusion of ideas into the mind by divine power; the act of drawing breath
INSTABI'LITY, _s._ inconstancy; fickleness
I'NSTANT, _a._ _instant_ is such a part of duration wherein we perceive no succession; present or current month
I'NSTANTLY, _ad._ immediately
I'NSTINCT, _s._ natural desire or aversion; natural tendency
INSt.i.tU'TION, _s._ establishment; settlement; positive law
INSTRU'CT, _v.a._ teach; form by precept; form authoritatively; educate; model; form
INSTRU'CTION, _s._ the act of teaching; information
INSUFFI'CIENT, _a._ inadequate to any need, use, or purpose; unfit
INTE'GRITY, _s._ honesty; straightforwardness; uprightness
INTELLE'CTUAL, _a._ relating to the understanding; mental; transacted by the understanding
INTE'LLIGENCE, _s._ commerce of information; spirit; understanding
INTE'LLIGIBLE, _a._ possible to be understood
INTE'MPERANCE, _s._ the act of overdoing something
INTE'NSE, _a._ excessive; very great
INTE'R, _v.a._ cover under ground; to bury
INTERCE'PT, _v.a._ to hinder; to stop
I'NTERCOURSE, _s._ commerce; communication
I'NTEREST, _s._ concern; advantage; good; influence over others
INTERE'ST, _v.n._ affect; move; touch with pa.s.sion
INTERLO'CUTOR, _s._ a dialogist; one that talks with another
INTERME'DIATE, _a._ intervening; interposed
INTE'RMINABLE, _a._ immense; without limits
INTE'RPRETER, _s._ one that interprets
INTERRU'PT, _v.a._ hinder the process of anything by breaking in upon it
INTERSE'CTION, _s._ point where lines cross each other
I'NTERs.p.a.cE, _s._ s.p.a.ce between
INTERSPE'RSE, _v.a._ to scatter here and there among other things
INTERVE'NE, _v.n._ to come between
I'NTERVIEW, _s._ mutual sight; sight of each other
INTERWE'AVE, _v.a._ to intermingle; to mix one with another in a regular texture
I'NTIMATE, _a._ inmost; inward; near; familiar
INTONA'TION, _s._ the act of thundering