Week 9 SAT Words

attribution in cleaning the house

Impute (v.) - to attribute to something.
attribute and impute mean the same thing. Pute sounds like it means to scorn something, but added with "im" is the opposite of pute, therefore it is to care about something and attribute to it.

Incompatible (adj.) - unable to work together.
Not compatible, and compatible means to work together, this word is pretty straight forward, you will understand.

Inconsequential (adj.) - little or no relevance, and importance.
not crucial or consequent, meaning that there is nothing following and nothing important.

Inevitable (adj.) - unable to get away from, unavoidable.
It is inevitably difficult to miss words Brobdingnagian and widely-known literature. I first came with contact with this word in The Giver.

Inflation (n.) - a rise in prices due to large amounts of the the general item.
Inflation was cause by the abundance of gold being sent into Spain during the post-Columbian era, where the Spanish colonists settled in the New World.

Pieces of Eight

Innocuous (adj.) - plausibly harmful or injurious.
The hard shell of the Cocoon protects the fragile butterfly during metamorphosis. The butterfly is safe because it's in-a-cucoon.

Integrity (n.) - one's moral character, honesty.
This word has filled my life, because people are often in search of men that will not be bought or sold. Honestly  I do not believe that they are such men.

Intrepid (adj.) - fearless, dauntless, and adventurous.
Trepid means to fear and to be timid, thus, intrepid means to be fearless and intimid, not scared.

Intuitive (adj.) - instinctive in the person or mind.
The word at first sounded like tuition, which I thought meant money that students pay to the school for education. However, "in" tuition means without getting education for another source, but from one's self.

Ironic (adj.) - characterized by irony, where something intended is opposite or completely different from the outcome.
Irony has been the whole topic of English I, and now in English II it is ironic for Mr. Webb because he is explaining Irony so thoroughly, unknowing that we students have understood it.