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Hesi A2 Vocabulary

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  1. 1AbateDefinition: Reduce in degree or intensity.
    Sentence: I hope this medicine will abate the pain in my leg.
  2. 2AbdicateDefinition: To give up or leave.
    Sentence: It is easier to abdicate your responsibilities than to be a good citizen.
  3. 3AnecdoteDefinition: Short story or account of an event.
    Sentence: The nurses anecdote about her shift made us all laugh.
  4. 4AssiduousDefinition: Very careful and hardworking.
    Sentence: The nurse had a assiduous attitude while caring for her patients.
  5. 5BenevolentDefinition: Showing sympathy, understanding, and generosity.
    Sentence: Holding the door open for Marie was very benevolent of you.
  6. 6BiasDefinition: Unfair preference or dislike.
    Sentence: Some pateints are bias against young nurses.
  7. 7BoisterousDefinition: rough; rowdy; unruly
    Sentence: Your boisterous actions at school cannot be tolerated.
  8. 8BrazenDefinition: Bold or unrestrained by normal standards.
    Sentence: In a brazen assault, the gang fired their weapons at the policeman.
  9. 9BrusqueDefinition: Attitude of shortness or rudness; gruff.
    Sentence: What did I do to make you so brusque with me?
  10. 10CapaciousDefinition: Large in size or capacity.
    Sentence: My patient is obese so we need a more capacious bed.
  11. 11CircuitousDefinition: Lengthy due to being indirect or rounabout.
    Senence: It seems like you took a circuitous route, rather than using a more direct route.
  12. 12ContingentDefinition: Depending on something not certain; conditional.
    Sentence: The job offer was contingent upon the return of a clean background review.
  13. 13CopiousDefinition: Abundant and plentiful
    Sentence: To avoid having a hangover, do not drink a copious amount of alcohol.
  14. 14DeleteriousDefinition: Harmful or deadly to living things.
    Sentence: The overpopulation of large snakes in the forest is deleterious to the wild rat population.
  15. 15DeterDefinition: To prevent or discourage.
    Sentence: We bought a German Shepard to deter any uninvited visitors.
  16. 16DiligentDefinition: Persistent and hardworking.
    Sentence: Skyler is a diligent worker.
  17. 17DisdainDefinition: Lack of respect or intense dislike.
    Sentence: Pacifists are likely to disdain my right to gun ownership.
  18. 18EndogenousDefiniton: Something produced within the body.
    Sentence: Clostridium is formed by endogenous spores in various stages.
  19. 19EnervatingDefinition: Causing debilitation or weakness.
    Sentence: The bosses rules were enervating and demoralizing.
  20. 20EphemeralDefinition: Lasting only for a short period of time.
    Sentence: Because of her ephemeral memory, she forgets things all the time!
  21. 21ExacerbateDefinition: Make more bitter, angry, or violent; irriutated or agitated.
    Sentence: If you do not take your medicine, you condition will exacerbate, and you will feel worse.
  22. 22ExasperateDefinition: Worsen, make angry, or frustrated.
    Sentence: The exasperated patient refused to leave the hospital until they got lunch.
  23. 23ExogenousDefinition: Something produced outside the body.
    Sentence: A snail has an exogenous shell.
  24. 24ExtenuatingDefinition: Diminish the seriousness of something.
    Sentence: The doctor reduced the patient's meds because of extenuating circumstances
  25. 25FortitudeDefinition: Strength or endurance during a difficult situation.
    Sentence: Most successful businessmen are not afraid to show fortitude when they face failure.
  26. 26FortuitousDefinition: Occurring by happy chance
    Sentence: Mark proved to be fortuitous by selecting all six winning lotto numbers.
  27. 27GarbleDefinition: Confusing, not understandable.
    Sentence: Drunk
    patients often garble their words so you cannot underzstand them.
  28. 28HematologicDefinition: Dealing with blood.
    Sentence: Laboratory people handle hematologic proceses.
  29. 29HyperboleDefinition: Exaggerating; making something more than it is.
    Sentence: Although what I said may sound like a hyperbole, it really is the truth.
  30. 30ImminentDefinition: Very likely to happen
    Sentence: It looks imminent that my patient will be discharged today.
  31. 31ImpendingDefinition: The point of occurring; imminent.
    Sentence: We are impending my patients results.
  32. 32ImpetuousDefinition: Undue haste without thought of consiquences.
    Sentence: His impetuous behavior landed him in prison.
  33. 33InconsequentialDefinition: Something without importance or significance.
    Sentence: At the end of the day, everything is inconsequential except for family.
  34. 34InsidiousDefinition: Operating stealthy with evil effect; deceitful; treacherous.
    Sentence: The insidious patient planned to con the hospital out of their fortune.
  35. 35LabileDefinition: Unstable or likely to change
    Sentence: Some drugs are lible in their affectiveness.
  36. 36LanguidDefiniton: Tired and slow.
    Sentence: I'm feeling languid today from lack of sleep.
  37. 37NoviceDefinition: A beginner: inexperienced.
    Sentence: When it came to coding complicated functions, the inexperienced coder was a novice.
  38. 38OminousDefinition: Foretelling disaster; threatening.
    Sentence: The warning sounds of an ominous storm made us run for cover
  39. 39OvertDefinition: Plain to view; open
    Sentence: In some countries, racial prejudice is overt and not disguised in the least.
  40. 40ParadoxDefintion: Appearing conflicting or contradicting.
    Sentence: In a strange paradox, the medicine made Heather sick before it made her better.
  41. 41ParoxysmalDefinition: A spasm or a violent outburst
    Sentence: The patient has paroxysmal spurts every hour.
  42. 42PragmaticDefinition: Concerned with practical matters and results.
    Sentence: The scientist had a pragmatic approach to dealing with the water crisis.
  43. 43PrecipitousDefinition: Done rapidly without thinking.
    Sentence: You should think before you do precipitous stunts that endanger your life!
  44. 44PrecociousDefinition: Showing advance development or maturity at an early age.
    Sentence: Although Jack is smart, he is a bit too precocious at six years of age.
  45. 45PrudentDefinition: Careful and sensible; using good judgement.
    Sentence: It is prudent not to go swimming during a hurricane.
  46. 46SagacityDefinition: Sound knowledge, judgment, and foresight.
    Sentence: The coach’s sagacity enabled the team to win.
  47. 47SublingualDefinition: Beneath the tongue
    Sentence: The nurse puts the thermometer probe sublingual.
  48. 48SuperfluousDefinition: More than is needed, desired, or necessary.
    Sentence: In the age of technology, sending letters by postal mail seems superfluous to me.
  49. 49TactfulDefinition: Showing concern to not offend others.
    Sentence: The doctor was tactful as he told the woman about her incurable illness
  50. 50TenaciousDefinition: Determined without change or doubt from the plan.
    Sentence: Because Eva was tenacious, she rose each time she fell.
  51. 51TerseDefinition: To the point; consise.
    Sentence: As a nurse you should give terse answers to questions.
  52. 52TransdermalDefinition: Passing through the skin.
    Sentence: The ladocaine patch is transdermal.
  53. 53TriteDefiniton: Dull; common.
    Sentence: The patients pain is trite.
  54. 54VenerableDefiniton: Worthy of respect because of wisdom or age.
    Sentence: Mother Teresa is very venerable because she's been working as a tech for 20 years.
  55. 55VenerateDefinition: Regard with much repect.
    Sentence: The Bible says we should venerate our parents and our elders.

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Vocabulary words and definitions
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  • Erstellt von Renee Hamilton · 6 Jul 2016
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