Vocabulary Words | Meanings |
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inhabit | to live in or occupy |
initial | the first letter of a word or name |
injction | a prick, usually in the arm with a hollow needle. Through the needle a liquid medicine is pushed into your bloodstream to make you better, or to stop you from getting an illness |
injure | to harm or hurt |
injury | a hurt or wound |
ink | a coloured liquid used with a pen for writing |
inn | a small hotel where travellers can stay, and where they can buy food and drink |
innocent | without guilt |
inquire | to ask. The word also spelled enquire |
inquiry | a question; a seeking of information. This word can also be spelled enquiry |
inquisitive | eager to find out about something curious; nosey |
insect | a very small animal with six legs, Ants, bees and beetles are insects |
inside | within; not outside |
insist | to demand; to say or ask over and over again |
inspect | to look carefully at something; to examine |
inspector | someone who examines things to make sure everything is all right. The word also means a policeman who is in charge of other policemen |
instalment | one of the parts of a serial story or film: one part of the money owed for something you pay for bit by bit |
instantly | at once; without delay |
instead | in place of |
instinct | an ability to do things without being taught. Baby ducks are able to swim by instinct |
instruct | to teach or inform someone |
instrument | a tool. The word also means something which makes music |
insult | to say something rude or hurtful |
intelligence | the capacity to know, knowledge imported or acquired |
intelligent | brainy; clever at learning |
intend | to mean to do something, as when you intend to pay someone back |
intense | very great |
interest | a wish to know more about something |
interesting | attracting or holding your interest |
interfere | to meddle; to hinder; to try to stop something from going on |
interrupt | to break in on something which is happening, like starting to speak when someone is already speaking |
interval | a period of time between two events, such as a ten-minute in a play |
interview | a talk with someone, often broadcast or reported in a newspaper |
introduce | to tell people each other’s names when they meet for the first time. The word also means to bring a new idea into what you are talking about or doing |
introduction | initiative discourse of understanding |
invade | to go into a place by force, as when an army invades the enemy’s country in wartime |
invalid | a person who is ill, illegal, wrong |
invent | to think up, or make something which is completely new and has never been thought of or made before |
invisible | not able to be seen |
invite | to ask someone to come to your home or to go somewhere with you |
iron | a strong grey metal. The same word also means a tool that takes the wrinkles out of clothes |
irritate | to annoy or make angry. The same word also means to itch |
island | a piece of land with water all around it |
isle | another word for island |
issue | a result; a problem. The same word also means to send or give something out |
italics | a kind or lettering that slants to the right, as these words do |
itch | a tickling felling on your skin which makes you want to scratch |
ivy | an evergreen climbing plant |
Non-defining relative clause
Non-defining relative clauses are placed after nouns which are definite already.
The adjective clause which does not define the noun before it but gives additional information about the noun is called the non-defining relative clause.