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of rights.infamous vile or shameful person, not notorious, although something infamous may also benotorious.infer (See imply) A reader or listener infers or deduces or concludes meaning from a text orspeech. Students may infer from this definition that ‘infer’ does not mean ‘imply’. Throughthis definition the ‘sender’ implies; the ‘receiver’ infers meaning.ingenious very clever. But not linked to genius. Also, ingenuous means unself-conscious.Innocent.Indigenous (n) notice the initial ‘I’ is a capital. This is a convention which includes Australianindigenous people generally referred to as Aboriginal people, or Aborigines, and TorresStrait Island people. (see Aborigine – where ‘generic’ tribal names coinciding with stateboundaries are preferred.)innocuous unimportantinnuendo oblique implicationinoculate to render resistant to disease or infection.innovative was the most overused gobbledegook word in 2008, according to the Dow JonesInsight site (See handy links). What’s called innovative probably isn’t new and original.Check facts before you’re tempted to use it.in order to/in relation to/in respect of are wordy/lazy phrases and should not be used.‘She studied hard in order to gain a high mark’ should be ‘She studied hard to gain a highmark’. ‘The trade union leader said government policy in relation to workers rights wasdiscriminatory’ should be ‘The trade union official said government industrial relationspolicy was discriminatory’. Notice the absence of ‘that’.inquiry Use this spelling, not ‘enquiry’.insure (v) when you take out property or life insurance; ensure is to make sure. ‘The policepresence ensured a peaceful demonstration’.internet lower case.into, in to See onto, on to.intransitive verbs Such verbs as ‘protest’, ‘go’, ‘laugh’, ‘vanish’, ‘appear’, ‘appeal’ and‘die’ are intransitive verbs because they cannot have a direct object. It is no more possibleto ‘protest something’ or ‘appeal something’ than to ‘laugh something’. These verbs needa preposition or infinitive. An exception is ‘protest innocence’, which is a separate andunique usage. In the cases of ‘protest’ and ‘appeal’, the preposition is often ‘against’. Theverbs ‘prevent’ and ‘stop’ similarly require a preposition – ‘from’ – when combined withan active object. It is incorrect to write ‘That will prevent him coming here’. The correctalternatives are ‘That will prevent him from coming here’ or the gerundive form, ‘That willprevent his coming here’.‘Irish’ Those participial continuous forms of verbs that have a Gaelic ring (‘will be holding’,‘will be having’) should be avoided in favour of the more direct future tense (‘will hold’,‘will have’).is/are agreement between the subject and verb is important. One in 25 people is something,not are something. ‘Data are’ is correct. ‘Data is’ is wrong.UQ SJC STYLEBOOK 2012 – PAGE 44