PowerScore SAT 50 Repeat Offenders | Day 12

Definition: impugn (vb)

• to ignore the validity of something
• to call into question or challenge the validity of something
• to enhance the credibility of something
• to support the validity of something

Answer explanation

Example: The candidate impugned his opponent’s voting record, proving that she voted against reform she now supported.

Word Forms: impugnable, impugnability, impugnment, impugner

Related Word: oppugn

Definition: incongruity (n)

• Harmony between contrasting elements.

• A state of complete agreement.

• A perfect alignment of ideas.

• A lack of harmony or compatibility between elements.

Answer explanation

Example: Inga’s incongruity made it difficult to reason with her; she seemed to find fault with every logical position.

Word Forms: incongruent, incongruently, incongruence, incongruous, incongruously, incongruousness

Antonym Forms: congruity, congruent, congruently, congruence, congruous, congruously, congruousness

Definition: incorrigible (adj)

• open to change
• capable of being corrected
• easily reformed
• incapable of being corrected or reformed

Answer explanation

Example: The incorrigible child continued to throw his vegetables even after the mother threatened to send him to his room.

Word Forms: incorrigibly, incorrigibleness, incorrigibility

Antonym Forms: corrigible, corrigibly, corrigibleness, corrigibility

Definition: indigenous (adj)

• Native to a particular region or environment.
• Originating from a historical event
• Belonging to a specific culture
• Commonly found in urban areas

Answer explanation

Example: Although the flower can now be found all over the eastern United States, it is indigenous to Florida.

Word Forms: indigenously, indigenousness, indigenity, indigen, indigene

Definition: ineffable (adj)

• easily described in simple terms
• too great or extreme to be expressed in words
• expressible through common language
• too trivial to warrant a description

Answer explanation

Example: Effie’s joy at being reunited with her long-lost brother was ineffable; words could not explain her happiness.

Word Forms: ineffably, ineffableness, ineffability

Antonym Form: effable

Definition: innocuous (adj)

• dangerous or harmful
• offensive and aggressive
• unpleasant or annoying
• not harmful or offensive

Answer explanation

Example: No one had to be evacuated after the tanker spill, as the gas released was innocuous.

Word Forms: innocuously, innocuousness, innocuity

Antonym Forms: nocuous, nocuously, nocuousness

Related Word: inoculate

Definition: insipid (adj)

• rich in taste
• full of flavor
• lacking flavor or interest
• exciting and engaging

Answer explanation

Example: When I left for college, the insipid cafeteria food made me miss my father’s home-cooked meals.

Word Forms: insipidly, insipidness, insipidity

Antonym Forms: sipid, sipidity

Definition: insolence (n)

• Polite and courteous behavior.
• A type of food or dish.
• A form of artistic expression.
• Rude or disrespectful behavior.

Answer explanation

Example: The headmaster said that insolence would not be tolerated; rude behavior towards a teacher would result in suspension.

Word Forms: insolent (n.), insolently, insolence

Definition: intransigent (adj)

• refusing to yield or compromise
• flexible in negotiations
• open to compromise
• easily yielding to pressure

Answer explanation

Example: When it came to Edgar’s hunting trophies, Enid was intransigent; she refused to hang the deer heads on the wall.

Word Forms: intransigent (n.), intransigently, intransigence, intransigency

Definition: juxtapose (vb)

• To place side by side for comparison or contrast.
• To combine two items into one.
• To analyze the differences between two items.
• To arrange in a random order.

Answer explanation

Example: When Justin’s picture was juxtaposed with his father’s picture, the resemblance between the two was remarkable.

Word Forms: juxtaposition

Related Word: pose