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_I to the occasion or the person, and hence conify interference by word or act not consistent with the age, position, or relation of the person interfered with or of the one who interferes; especially, forward, presumptuous, or meddlesome speech _Iance in a superior becomes _impertinence_ or _impudence_ in an inferior _Impertinence_ has less of intent and deterhtless _impertinence_, shaainst custom, _i e_, the violation of custo upon others unasked and undesired service, and is often as well-ht be expected frohly uncultured person, andor unintentional and even unconscious Compare ARROGANCE; assURANCE; EFFRONTERY; PERTNESS
Antonyms:
bashfulness, diffidence, lowliness, modesty, coyness, humility, meekness, submissiveness
Prepositions:
The impudence _of_, or impudence _from_, a subordinate _to_ a superior
INCONGRUOUS
Synony, inapposite, irreconcilable, contradictory, inappropriate, mismatched, contrary, inconant, discrepant, inconsistent, unsuitable
Two or ether, or are not adapted to each other, are said to be _incongruous_; a thing is said to be _incongruous_ that is not adapted to the ti made up of ill-assorted parts or _inhars that jar in association like musical notes that are not in accord; _inharinal sense, but is a nifies unable to sympathize or feel alike; _inconsistent_ s are _incoether in harmonious relations, and whose action when associated tends to ultimate extinction of one by the other _Inconsistent_ applies to things that can not be ht with each other, or with soht; slavery and freedom are _inconsistent_ with each other in theory, and _incoruous_ applies to relations, _unsuitable_ to purpose or use; two colors are _incongruous_ which can not be agreeably associated; either may be _unsuitable_ for a person, a room, or an occasion
_Inco to two or more quantities that have no common reeing, compatible, consistent, harmonious, suitable
Preposition:
The illustrations were incongruous _with_ the theme
INDUCTION
Synonyms:
deduction, inference
_Deduction_ is reasoning fro froeneral principle through an admitted instance to a conclusion
_Induction_, on the other hand, proceeds froh soeneral principle The proof of an _induction_ is by using its conclusion as the premise of a new _deduction_ Thus what is ordinarily known as scientific _induction_ is a constant interchange of _induction_ and _deduction_ In _deduction_, if the general rule is true, and the special case falls under the rule, the conclusion is certain; _induction_ can ordinarily give no more than a probable conclusion, because we can never be sure that we have collated all instances An _induction_ is of the nature of an _inference_, but while an _inference_ may be partial and hasty, an _induction_ is careful, and aims to be complete Compare DEMONSTRATION; HYPOTHESIS
INDUSTRIOUS
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