Oh Language -23

 Oh Language -23

All terms beginning in ‘In’ need not be a negative of something. They could themselves be root words. Some such items are presented now.

Incipient

The term refers to the early state of formation or beginning. “The old man shows signs of incipient dementia”

Incur

The term signifies a loss or bad effect from one’s effort as in                        ‘He incurred a huge loss by venturing into a trade unknown to him’             

Indemnity

The term refers to a protection to safeguard against some possible damage or loss; it may also refer to some money paid to compensate for a loss. For all international trade a certain ‘indemnity bond’ has to be executed by the trader.

Inflammable

The term refers to the property of readiness to burn or catch fire as in ‘petrol is highly inflammable’. But, ‘inflammable’ is not the negative of ‘flammable’, because ‘flammable’ refers to the character of being ‘easy to burn. Of the two ‘inflammable’ signifies a far more aggressive quickness of burning than of a ‘flammable’ item.  

Infructuous

Means –unnecessary or pointless or irrelevant .An example: In the light of the apex court’s detailed clarification, any appeal or review petition in the matter is infructuous.

Infuriate

The term refers to the act causing fiery anger in someone by some utterance or act. ‘The nonchalant replies of the accused infuriated the judge’.

Infuse

The term signifies an act or process that helps to introduce or add something as in “Injections help to infuse medicines into blood stream to reach all parts of body more rapidly”. ‘Good parents infuse a sense of responsibility in children by appropriate cultivation of habits’.

Inordinate

The expression refers to something being much greater or longer than usual or known to be of  [but certainly not the opposite of ‘ordinate’ –a mathematical term]

“There was an inordinate delay in the publication of examination results due to disruption of work by employees’ strike”

Insipid

The term refers to poor aroma or taste or colour . “The cakes served yesterday were insipid”

More to follow ……..