Intend = plan to do something: ‘I intend to arrive early and make sure that I get a seat.’
Tend = (i) be likely or true in most causes: ‘At that age, girls tend to be more mature than boys.’ (ii) have a tendency or disposition to do or be something: ‘She tends to be nervous before examination.’
Inhabit = (usually passive) lives in a place or area, especially for a long time or permanently: ‘The island is mainly inhabited by sheep.’ ‘The mountainous regions are still inhabited by indigenous tribes.’
Occupy = use or live in a room, house or building for any length of time: ‘Is that seat occupied?’ ‘The flat below was occupied by a young couple.’
Inferior= of or characteristic of low rank or importance; poor in quality: ‘An inferior product’
Inferior/superior to (NOT than): ‘To suggest that women doctors are in some way inferior to their male counterparts is scandalous.’ ‘Why do they think themselves so superior to the rest of us?’
Independent= (1) independent (not subject to control by others) of somebody/something (NOT from): ‘Now-a-days young people want to be independent of their parents.’ (2) free from external control and constraint: ‘She is a very independent person.’
Impulse = a sudden desire to do something: ‘I walked out of the classroom on an impulse.’ ‘It’s unwise to act on impulse.’
Inspiration = (a source of) creative energy: ‘The inspiration for these early poems came from his relationship with Lucy Potter.’
The verb immigrate (= migrate to a foreign country and change residency) is seldom used. Instead people tend to use immigrant and immigration (nouns): ‘When jobs became scarce, the number of new immigrants suddenly decreased.’ ‘Immigration has decreased in recent years.’
Emigrate = leave one’s own country for a new one: ‘His parents emigrated from Scotland to Canada in 1933.’
Imitate = do something in exactly the same way that someone else does it: ‘Have you heard him trying to imitate an Englishman speaking French?’ ‘He walks as if he is trying to imitate Donald Duck.’
Copy = do the same thing as someone else: ‘As soon as I began cycling to work, people started copying me.’ ‘His little sister wants to copy him all the time.’
Unlike but, however is an adverb (NOT a conjunction) and is used only in formal styles: ‘I was hoping to deal with this matter quickly. However, the situation is more complicated than I thought.’ ‘The newspapers always carried stories of new advances and glorious victories. In reality, however, the war was not going well.’
When you ask for or give a description of someone or something, use what … like (NOT how): ‘What’s your new English teacher like?’ ‘This drawing gives you an idea of what the new shopping complex will look like.’ ‘What does it feel like to win an Olympic gold medal?’ ‘What do the apples taste like?’
Hopeless= without hope, because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success: ‘In an agony of hopeless grief’
Hopeless is usually used to describe a situation, not a person: ‘The firemen tried to get the blaze under control, but it was hopeless.’ When you say that a person is hopeless, you mean that they are unable to do something skillfully: ‘He’s hopeless at remembering names.’
To describe someone who feels that they have little or no chance of success, especially because they have already experienced failure or disappointment, use dispirited, dejected, disheartened, discouraged, despondent or demoralized: ‘Having lost ten matches in a row, the team felt completely demoralized.’
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