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I: 1. Used of a single unit or thing; not two or more 2. Refers to the speaker or writer

Ideal: 1. Conforming to an ultimate standard of perfection or excellence; embodying an ideal

Identification: 1. The act of designating or identifying something 2. The attribution to yourself of the characteristics of others 3. Evidence of identity; something that identifies a person or thing 4. The process of recognizing something or someone by remembering 5. Attribution to yourself (consciously or unconsciously) of the characteristics of another person (or group of persons)

Identify: 1. Give the name or identifying characteristics of; refer to by name or some other identifying characteristic property 2. Consider (oneself) as similar to somebody else 3. Associate very closely

Identity: 1. The distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity 2. Collective aspect of the set of characteristics by which a thing is recognizable or known 3. An operator that leaves unchanged the element on which it operates 4. Exact sameness

Idle: 1. Not in action or at work 2. Without a basis in reason or fact 3. Lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility 4. Not yielding a return

Ignorance: 1. The lack of knowledge or education

Ignore: 1. Refuse to acknowledge 2. Bar from attention or consideration 3. Fail to notice 4. Give little attention or respect to 5. Be ignorant of or in the dark about

Ignoring: 1. Refuse to acknowledge 2. Bar from attention or consideration 3. Fail to notice 4. Give little attention or respect to

Illness: 1. Impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism

Illuminating: 1. Make lighter or brighter 2. Make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear 3. Highly enlightening; making understandable or clarifying 4. Providing light

Illusion: 1. An erroneous mental representation 2. Something many people believe that is false 3. An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

Image: 1. An iconic mental representation 2. (Jungian psychology) a personal facade one presents to the world 3. A standard or typical example 4. Language used in a figurative or non-literal sense 5. A visual representation of an object or scene or person produced on a surface 6. Imagine; see in one's mind

Immediate: 1. Very close or connected in space or time 2. Having no intervening medium 3. Immediately before or after as in a chain of cause and effect 4. Of the present time and place 5. Performed with little or no delay

Impatient: 1. Restless or short of temper under delay or opposition 2. full of eagerness

Imperative: 1. A mood that expresses an intention to influence the listener's behavior 2. Some duty that is essential and urgent 2. Requiring attention or action

Implicit: 1. Implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something 2. Being without doubt or reserve

Imply: 1. Express or state indirectly 2. Suggest as a logically necessary consequence; in logic 3. Suggest that someone is guilty 4. Have as a necessary feature or consequence; entail

Impression: 1. A vague idea in which some confidence is placed 2. An outward appearance 3. A clear and telling mental image 4. A concavity in a surface produced by pressing 5. A symbol that is the result of printing 6. All the copies of a work printed at one time 7.

Improve: 1. To make better in quality or more valuable; "The editor improved the manuscript with his changes." 2.Get better

Impulse: 1. An instinctive motive 2. A sudden desire 3. An impelling force or strength

Inability: 1. Lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something 2. Lacking the power to perform

Inadequacy 1. Lack of an adequate quantity or number 2. A lack of competence 3. Unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate

Inadvertently: 1. Without knowledge or intention

Incapable: 1. lacking capacity or ability 3. Not being susceptible to or admitting of something

Incidental: 1. an expense not budgeted or not specified 2. minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence 3. Following as a consequence 4. Not of prime or central importance

Inclination: 1. An attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others 2. That toward which you are inclined to feel a liking 3. A characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect

Inconsiderate: 1. Lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others 2. Without proper consideration or reflection

Incorporating: 1. Unite or merge with something already in existence 2. Make into a whole or make part of a whole 3. Include or contain; have as a component

Increase: 1. A quantity that is added 2. Become bigger or greater in amount 3. A process of becoming larger 4. Make bigger or more

Incurable: 1. A person whose disease is incurable 2. Being such that a cure is impossible 3. Without hope of cure 4. Unalterable in disposition or habits

Independence: 1. Freedom from control or influence of another or others

Indication: 1. A signal that serves to indicate or suggest something

Indifferent: 1. Marked by a lack of interest 2. Showing no care or concern in attitude or action 3. (usually followed by 'to') unwilling or refusing to pay heed 4. Lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other; often followed by "to" 5. Fairly poor to not very good 6. Marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another 7. Characterized by a lack of partiality 8. Neither good nor bad 9. Neither too great nor too little

Indirect: 1. Having intervening factors or persons or influences 2. Not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination 3. Descended from a common ancestor but through different lines 4. Extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action

Indiscriminately: 1. In a random manner 2. In an indiscriminate manner

Indispensable: 1. Absolutely necessary; vitally necessary 2. Unavoidable

Inevitable: 1. An unavoidable event 2. Incapable of being avoided or prevented 3. Invariably occurring or appearing

Inferior: 1. One of lesser rank or station or quality 2. A character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character 3. Of or characteristic of low rank or importance 4. Falling short of some prescribed norm

Inferiority: 1. The state of being inferior 2. An inferior quality 3. The quality of being a competitive disadvantage

Inflicted: 1. Impose something unpleasant

Influences: 1. A power to affect persons or events esp power based on prestige etc 2. Causing something without any direct or apparent effort 3. A cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do 4. The effect of one thing (or person) on another 5. One having power to influence another

Ingenious: 1. marked by independence and creativity in thought or action 2. Skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends 3. Showing inventiveness and skill

Inherent: 1. Existing as an essential constituent or characteristic 2. In the nature of something though not readily apparent

Initial: 1. The first letter of a word (especially a person's name) 2. Mark with one's initials 3. Occurring at the beginning

Injure: 1. Hurt the feelings of 2. Cause damage or affect negatively 3. Cause bodily harm to

Innermost: 1. Being deepest within the self 2. Situated or occurring farthest within

Insanity: 1. Any mental disorder characterized by temporary or permanent irrational or violent deviations from normal thinking, feeling, and behavior 2. Is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results. (Basic Text Pg.23) 3. Is using drugs day after day knowing that only physical and mental destruction comes when we use. (Basic Text Pg.23) 4. Is a loss of our perspective and our sense of proportion. (Step Working Guides Pg. 13) 5. The belief that we can take something outside ourselves-drugs, power, sex, food-to fix what’s wrong inside ourselves: our feelings (Step Working Guides Pg.13)

Insecurity: 1. The state of being subject to danger or injury 2. The anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure

Insidious: 1. Beguiling but harmful 2. Intended to entrap 3. Working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way

Insight: 1. Clear or deep perception of a situation 2. A feeling of understanding 3. The clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation 4. Grasping the inner nature of things intuitively 5. At or within a reasonable distance for seeing

Instant: 1.A very short time 2. A particular point in time 3. Occurring with no delay 4. Demanding attention

Instrument: 1. A device that requires skill for proper use 2. The means whereby something is accomplished 3. A person used by another to gain an end

Intangible: 1. Incapable of being perceived by the senses especially the sense of touch

Integrity: 1. An unreduced or unbroken completeness or totality 2. Moral soundness 3. Is the consistent application of spiritual principles, no matter what the circumstances.(It Works How & Why Pg.142) 4. Knowing which principles we need to practice in a given situation, and in what measure. (Step Working Guides Pg.102)

Intensely: 1. In an intense manner

Intensity: 1. High level or degree; the property of being intense

Intentionally: 1. With intention; in an intentional manner

Intentions: 1. An anticipated outcome that is intended or guides your planned actions

Interact: 1. Act together or towards others or with others

Internal: 1. Happening or arising or located within some limits or especially surface 2. Occurring within an institution or community 3. Inside the country 4. Located inward 5. Innermost or essential

Intimacy: 1. Close or warm friendship 2. A usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship 3. A feeling of being intimate and belonging together 4. The sharing of our innermost thoughts and feelings with another human being; Party of life, and therefore a part of living clean-and intimacy, like everything in recovery, has its price. . (Just For Today Pg.348)

Intolerance: 1. Impatience with annoyances 2. Unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs 3. Results from differences we will not accept. (Another Look IP No.5)

Intolerant: 1. Unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion 2. Narrow-minded about cherished opinions

Inventory: 1. A detailed list of all the items in stock 2. (accounting) the value of a firm's current assets including raw materials and work in progress and finished goods 3. Allows us to look at our basic nature with it’s flaws and it’s strengths (It Works How & Why Pg.39)

Involvement: 1. Sharing the activities of a group 2. A connection of inclusion or containment 3. A sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something

Irrelevant: 1. Having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue

Isolation: 1. A state of separation between persons or groups 2. A feeling of being disliked and alone 3. Preference for seclusion or isolation

Issue: 1. An important question that is in dispute and must be settled