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Infer

(Verb)

Meaning:To arrive at a conclusion by reasoning
Imagine This:After the evidence arrived the police station, the detectives made a conclusion and requested anarrest warrant.
Other Forms:Inference (noun); Inferential (adj.)

Inscrutable

(Adjective)

Meaning:Not to be understood; puzzled
Looks Like:In(not)_screw_table
Imagine This:When archaeologists found a table in the Inca ruins, they were puzzled to find that the table’s stone legs were not screwed to the table’s surface.
Other Forms:Inscrutability (noun); Inscrutably (adv.)

Insipid

(Adjective)

Meaning:Without flavor; tasteless
Looks Like:In(not)_sip_it
Imagine This:Cooks normally do not sip the broth before he or she adds the seasoning because it is tasteless.
Other Forms:Insipidly (adv.)

Insolent

(Adjective)

Meaning:Extremely rude to someone; insultingly contemptuous in speech or conduct
Looks Like:Sole_lent
Sounds Like:In_sole_ant
Imagine This:There is an antin your shoe sole and it makes you very uncomfortable.Your mom asks why are you keep stamping rudely, so you reply, “It’s not me!There is an ant in my shoe’s sole!�
Once there was a rude and wild boy who made trouble everywhere he went and his mother watched in vain until one day her aunt lent the boy’s mother a giant hard shoe sole to punish her son with; and from that day on, when the boy’s mother showed him the sole of the shoe, he was speechless and did what he was told.
Other Forms:Insolence (noun), Insolence (adverb)

Insolvent

(Adjective)

Meaning:Unable to pay debts; broke
Looks Like:In(not)_solvent(dissolvable)
Imagine This:The man who could not dissolve his company was forced to declare bankruptcy so that he could start a new life all over again on a clean slate.
Other Forms:Insolvency (noun)