Advanced English Vocabulary - The Letter "I"

Ironic

Irony is a tough word to define. There are different types of irony. There is verbal irony: when you say the opposite of what you mean (If you say that the weather is beautiful when it is, in fact, not beautiful--you're being ironic). 

There is also situational irony: when what you expect to happen is different from what actually happens (although even that is not a great definition). In the podcast I give an example from The Simpsons! 

Indifferent

If you are indifferent about something, you don't really care about that thing. Imagine someone asks you what you want to eat for dinner. "I'm indifferent," you say. That means you don't care. 

​Indignant

If you are indignant about something, you are angry because you think that something is unfair. We learned the word "grievance" in Advanced English Vocabulary - The Letter "G". If you have a grievance, you would likely feel indignant too 😉 

Incredulous

If you are incredulous, you are so surprised about some fact that you are unable to believe it. In this podcast I spoke about how I was incredulous when I realized that I was going to be late to record this episode.  

Impromptu 

Impromptu means not planned: You can have impromptu meetings with people. You can go on impromptu vacations. One of those sounds nice right about now. Where would you go if you could go on an impromptu vacation right now?