indomitable ADJ. /不屈服的;不可被征服的/unconquerable; unyielding. Focusing on her game despite all her personal
problems, tennis champion Steffi Graf proved she had an indomitable will to win.
indubitable ADJ. /不容臵疑的;无疑的/unable to be doubted; unquestionable. Auditioning for the chorus line, Molly was
an indubitable hit: the director fired the leading lady and hired Molly in her place!
induce V. /劝诱;导致，引起/persuade; bring about. After the quarrel, Tina said nothing could induce her to talk to Tony
again. inducement, N.
indulgent ADJ. /宽容，纵容，溺爱/humoring; yielding; lenient. Jay's mom was excessively indulgent she bought him every
Nintendo cartridge and video game on the market. She indulged Jay so much, she spoiled him rotten.
industrious ADJ. /勤奋的，努力的/diligent; hard-working. Look busy when the boss walks by your desk; it never hurts to
appear indus trious. industry, N.
inebriated ADJ. /醉的/habitually intoxicated; drunk. Abe was inebriated more often than he was sober. Because of his
inebriety, he was discharged from his job as a bus driver.
ineffable ADJ. /不可言喻的，无法用语言表达的;不能说的，避讳的/unutterable; cannot be expressed in speech. Such ineffable
joy must be experienced; it cannot be described.
ineffectual ADJ. /无效的，弱的/not effective; weak. Because the candidate failed to get across his message to the public,
his campaign was ineffectual.
inefficacious ADJ. /无能的，无效的/not effective; unable to produce a desired result. All Lois's coaxing and urging was
inefficacious: Clark still refused to join her and Superman for dinner. inefficacy, N.
inept ADJ. /不相称的，不合适的，不称职的/lacking skill; unsuited; incompetent. The inept glovemaker was all thumbs.
inequity N. /不公平/unfairness. In demanding equal pay for equal work, women protest the basic inequity of a system
that gives greater financial rewards to men.
inert ADJ. /惰性的，不活跃的/inactive; lacking power to move. "Get up, you lazybones," she cried to her husband, who lay
in bed inert. inertia, N.
inevitable ADJ. /不可避免地/unavoidable. Though death and taxes are both supposedly inevitable, some people avoid
paying taxes for years.
inexorable ADJ. /无情的;残酷的/relentless; unyielding; implacable. After listening to the pleas for clemency, the judge
was inexorable and gave the convicted man the maximum punishment allowed by law.
infallible ADJ. /一贯正确的/unerring. We must remember that none of us is infallible; we all make mistakes.
infamous ADJ. /臭名昭著的，恶名远扬的/notoriously bad. Charles Manson and Jeffrey Dahmer are both infamous killers. infantile ADJ. /婴儿的，幼稚的/childish. When will he outgrow such infantile behavior?
infer V. /推导，总结/deduce; conclude. From the students' glazed looks, it was easy for me to infer that they were bored
out of their minds. inference, N.
infernal ADJ. /魔鬼的，地狱的/pertaining to hell; devilish. Batman was baffled: he could think of no way to hinder the
Joker's infernal scheme to destroy the city.
infidel N. /异教徒，异端;不信宗教的/unbeliever. The Saracens made war against the infidels.
infiltrate V. /渗透/pass into or through; penetrate (an organization) sneakily. In order to be able to infiltrate enemy
lines at night without being seen, the scouts darkened their faces and wore black coveralls. infiltrator, N.
infinitesimal ADJ. /微小的/very small. In the twentieth century, physicists have made their greatest discoveries about
the characteristics of infinitesimal objects like the atom and its parts.
infirmity N. /弱点/weakness. Her greatest infirmity was lack of willpower.
inflated ADJ. /夸张的，虚华的，被放大的/exaggerated; pompous; enlarged (with air or gas). His claims about the new
product were inflated, it did not work as well as he had promised.
influx N. /注入，流入/flowing into. The influx of refugees into the country has taxed the relief agencies severely.
informal ADJ. /非正式的;不拘礼节的/absence of ceremony; casual. The English teacher preferred informal discussions to prepared lectures.
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