LandaBooks Word Quiz Answers: The I's Have It

  1. An impresario (from Italian impresario, "operatic manager" or business operator) is usually a producer of entertaining shows.
  2. To ingratiate is to try hard to please (especially to please for self-benefit). His false compliments were part of his effort to ingratiate himself with powerful people.
  3. An ibis (from Egyptian hab, a sacred bird) is a wading bird, of the stork and heron family.
  4. An isthmus is a narrow strip of land, bordered by water on both sides, connecting larger land masses.
  5. Inimical means hostile, harmful—a climate inimical to good health (from Latin inimic, unfriendly).
Posted by Dave at 7/6/2011 2:22 PM
Categories: Words, words, word quiz
Tags: Impresario ingratiate ibis isthmus inimical
 

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