WOW #3 (Ig, Ir)

ignominious

adj. dishonorable or shameful connotations: sinful Example sentence: Former Facebook employee Frances Haugen recently painted a rather ignominious portrait of how, allegedly, Facebook hid research that proves teenagers felt worse after using the app and the company also intentionally used hateful content to keep users hooked.

irrepressible

adj. impossible to control or hold back connotations: energetic, passionate, positive Students frequently seem to enjoy slam poetry because performers use irrepressible energy to forcefully convey their personal experiences with the audience.

irredeemable

adj. impossible to pay off, reform, or buy back connotations: religious, moral, intense Some argue that Abigail Williams in the play, The Crucible, is an irredeemable character for all of the unnecessary chaos she sows in the tiny town of Salem, Massachusetts.

irreparable

adj. impossible to repair, amend, or rectify connotations: legal, intense In her book, Blackout, author Candace Owens argues that too many celebrities are causing irreparable harm to our youth because of the allegedly sordid morals they are promoting.

ignoble

adj. morally corrupt or lowly in quality or purpose connotations: sinful Greta Thunberg has addressed the U.N. on climate change, arguing that willful inactivity is tantamount to an ignoble deed.

irresolute

adj. unsure of how to act or proceed; undecided connotations: formal, academic In the novel, "Breaking Through," by Francisco Jimenez, Panchito was felt irresolute how to behave at the fancy steakhouse because he had never been to a restaurant before, let alone a high end one with a stranger.

irrevocably

adv. in a manner that is impossible to withdraw or take back connotations: legal, everlasting, intense In Mark Kurlansky's Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, there are several warnings as to the irrevocably damaging effects over-fishing will have on the world's ocean biospheres.

ignoramus

n. an ignorant person connotations: formal, rude, immature In the classic novel, Catcher in the Rye, protagonist Holden Caulfield thinks of others as either a phony or an ignoramus.

ignominy

n. loss of reputation; shame; disgrace connotations: moral, religious The narrator in the short story, "The Scarlet Ibis," shares his ignominy after unnecessarily losing his younger brother due to his own selfish desires.

irreverence

n. lack of due respect connotations: religious, sacrilegious example sentence: Langston Hughes' short story, "Thank You, Ma'am," is about a young man who, our of irreverence, tries to steal from an older woman but, in the end, learns a valuable moral lesson through the woman's firm, yet compassionate, demeanor.

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irreproachable

adj. beyond criticism, disapproval, or blame connotations: moral, lofty