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- Sentence in context: The indolent teenagers slept late, moped around, and never looked for summer jobs.
- Indolent (IN dul lunt) adj -- lazy[image]
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- The baseball team seemed strangely inert; it was as though they had lost the will not only to win but even to play.
- INERT (in URT) adj -- inactive; sluggish; not reacting chemically
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- The simple beauty of nature is often so ineffable that it brings tears to the eyes.
- Ineffable (in EF uh bul) adj -- incapable of being expressed or described.
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- The inexorable waves pounded the shore, as they have always pounded it ans as they always will pound it.
- INEXORABLE (in EK sue uh bul) ajd -- relentless; inevitable; unavoidable
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- The supposedly obscene record sounded pretty innocuous to us; there weren't even any four-letter wrods in it.
- INNOCUOUS (i NOK yoo us) adj -- harmless; banal; innocent
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