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Hesi A2 Vocabulary
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- 1AbateDefinition: Reduce in degree or intensity.
Sentence: I hope this medicine will abate the pain in my leg. - 2AbdicateDefinition: To give up or leave.
Sentence: It is easier to abdicate your responsibilities than to be a good citizen. - 3AnecdoteDefinition: Short story or account of an event.
Sentence: The nurses anecdote about her shift made us all laugh. - 4AssiduousDefinition: Very careful and hardworking.
Sentence: The nurse had a assiduous attitude while caring for her patients. - 5BenevolentDefinition: Showing sympathy, understanding, and generosity.
Sentence: Holding the door open for Marie was very benevolent of you. - 6BiasDefinition: Unfair preference or dislike.
Sentence: Some pateints are bias against young nurses. - 7BoisterousDefinition: rough; rowdy; unruly
Sentence: Your boisterous actions at school cannot be tolerated. - 8BrazenDefinition: Bold or unrestrained by normal standards.
Sentence: In a brazen assault, the gang fired their weapons at the policeman. - 9BrusqueDefinition: Attitude of shortness or rudness; gruff.
Sentence: What did I do to make you so brusque with me? - 10CapaciousDefinition: Large in size or capacity.
Sentence: My patient is obese so we need a more capacious bed. - 11CircuitousDefinition: Lengthy due to being indirect or rounabout.
Senence: It seems like you took a circuitous route, rather than using a more direct route. - 12ContingentDefinition: Depending on something not certain; conditional.
Sentence: The job offer was contingent upon the return of a clean background review. - 13CopiousDefinition: Abundant and plentiful
Sentence: To avoid having a hangover, do not drink a copious amount of alcohol. - 14DeleteriousDefinition: Harmful or deadly to living things.
Sentence: The overpopulation of large snakes in the forest is deleterious to the wild rat population. - 15DeterDefinition: To prevent or discourage.
Sentence: We bought a German Shepard to deter any uninvited visitors. - 16DiligentDefinition: Persistent and hardworking.
Sentence: Skyler is a diligent worker. - 17DisdainDefinition: Lack of respect or intense dislike.
Sentence: Pacifists are likely to disdain my right to gun ownership. - 18EndogenousDefiniton: Something produced within the body.
Sentence: Clostridium is formed by endogenous spores in various stages. - 19EnervatingDefinition: Causing debilitation or weakness.
Sentence: The bosses rules were enervating and demoralizing. - 20EphemeralDefinition: Lasting only for a short period of time.
Sentence: Because of her ephemeral memory, she forgets things all the time! - 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. - 22ExasperateDefinition: Worsen, make angry, or frustrated.
Sentence: The exasperated patient refused to leave the hospital until they got lunch. - 23ExogenousDefinition: Something produced outside the body.
Sentence: A snail has an exogenous shell. - 24ExtenuatingDefinition: Diminish the seriousness of something.
Sentence: The doctor reduced the patient's meds because of extenuating circumstances - 25FortitudeDefinition: Strength or endurance during a difficult situation.
Sentence: Most successful businessmen are not afraid to show fortitude when they face failure. - 26FortuitousDefinition: Occurring by happy chance
Sentence: Mark proved to be fortuitous by selecting all six winning lotto numbers. - 27GarbleDefinition: Confusing, not understandable.
Sentence: Drunk
patients often garble their words so you cannot underzstand them. - 28HematologicDefinition: Dealing with blood.
Sentence: Laboratory people handle hematologic proceses. - 29HyperboleDefinition: Exaggerating; making something more than it is.
Sentence: Although what I said may sound like a hyperbole, it really is the truth. - 30ImminentDefinition: Very likely to happen
Sentence: It looks imminent that my patient will be discharged today. - 31ImpendingDefinition: The point of occurring; imminent.
Sentence: We are impending my patients results. - 32ImpetuousDefinition: Undue haste without thought of consiquences.
Sentence: His impetuous behavior landed him in prison. - 33InconsequentialDefinition: Something without importance or significance.
Sentence: At the end of the day, everything is inconsequential except for family. - 34InsidiousDefinition: Operating stealthy with evil effect; deceitful; treacherous.
Sentence: The insidious patient planned to con the hospital out of their fortune. - 35LabileDefinition: Unstable or likely to change
Sentence: Some drugs are lible in their affectiveness. - 36LanguidDefiniton: Tired and slow.
Sentence: I'm feeling languid today from lack of sleep. - 37NoviceDefinition: A beginner: inexperienced.
Sentence: When it came to coding complicated functions, the inexperienced coder was a novice. - 38OminousDefinition: Foretelling disaster; threatening.
Sentence: The warning sounds of an ominous storm made us run for cover - 39OvertDefinition: Plain to view; open
Sentence: In some countries, racial prejudice is overt and not disguised in the least. - 40ParadoxDefintion: Appearing conflicting or contradicting.
Sentence: In a strange paradox, the medicine made Heather sick before it made her better. - 41ParoxysmalDefinition: A spasm or a violent outburst
Sentence: The patient has paroxysmal spurts every hour. - 42PragmaticDefinition: Concerned with practical matters and results.
Sentence: The scientist had a pragmatic approach to dealing with the water crisis. - 43PrecipitousDefinition: Done rapidly without thinking.
Sentence: You should think before you do precipitous stunts that endanger your life! - 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. - 45PrudentDefinition: Careful and sensible; using good judgement.
Sentence: It is prudent not to go swimming during a hurricane. - 46SagacityDefinition: Sound knowledge, judgment, and foresight.
Sentence: The coach’s sagacity enabled the team to win. - 47SublingualDefinition: Beneath the tongue
Sentence: The nurse puts the thermometer probe sublingual. - 48SuperfluousDefinition: More than is needed, desired, or necessary.
Sentence: In the age of technology, sending letters by postal mail seems superfluous to me. - 49TactfulDefinition: Showing concern to not offend others.
Sentence: The doctor was tactful as he told the woman about her incurable illness - 50TenaciousDefinition: Determined without change or doubt from the plan.
Sentence: Because Eva was tenacious, she rose each time she fell. - 51TerseDefinition: To the point; consise.
Sentence: As a nurse you should give terse answers to questions. - 52TransdermalDefinition: Passing through the skin.
Sentence: The ladocaine patch is transdermal. - 53TriteDefiniton: Dull; common.
Sentence: The patients pain is trite. - 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. - 55VenerateDefinition: Regard with much repect.
Sentence: The Bible says we should venerate our parents and our elders.
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