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HESI A2 Vocabulary Flashcards

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**What is the meaning of the word languid?

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Lacking energy, or causing a lack of energy or enthusiasm

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burgeoning

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Growing or developing quickly

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Entreat

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to plead with, especially in order to persuade

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cicatrix

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New tissue that forms over a wound and later contracts into a scar

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proliferation

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To grow by rapid production of new parts, cells, buds, or offspring

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Adhere

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to stick

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Irreproachable

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Without fault and therefore impossible to criticize

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endogenous

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Found or coming from within something, such as a system or a person’s body or mind

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Aide

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a person who helps another person, especially in their job or with specific tasks.

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Aegis

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protection

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analgesic

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Something used to stop people from feeling pain, or relating to the stopping of pain

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Affably

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pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to”Affably

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Antitussive

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medication to suppress his persistent cough and allow for better rest

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Benevolent

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characterized by or given to doing good?

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Astute

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perceptive

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antihistamines

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A type of drug that is used to treat medical conditions caused by an extreme reaction to particular substances

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anticoagulant

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A drug or other substance that prevents or slows down the process of blood forming a clot

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boorish

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Someone who is rude and not considering other people’s feelings

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“make something greater”

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Augment

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“successful future”

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Auspiciously

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“shameless or impudent?

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Brazen

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auscultate

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To examine by listening

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Ambiguous

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“someone or something that is unclear or not easily described

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To eject or expel matter, as phlegm, from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting

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Expectorate

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Expiate
To admit you did something that was a sin or something you feel guilty about and to pay a penalty
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Enigmatic
Someone or something that is mysterious and impossible to understand completely.
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Euphemism
The substitution of an agreeable or inoffensive expression for one that may offend or suggest something unpleasant
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Dejected
Low spirit
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emigrate
To leave a country permanently and go to live in another one
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expectorate
To eject or expel matter, as phlegm, from the throat or lungs by coughing or hawking and spitting
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Exacerbate
increase the severity
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etiology
The cause of a disease or abnormal condition
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Enigmatic
Someone or something that is mysterious and impossible to understand completely.
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Euthanasia
an act or practice of causing death painlessly, so as to end suffering: advocated by some as a way to deal with persons dying of incurable, painful diseases
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Ephemeral
fleeting something lasting for a short time
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Flaccid
Soft
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Flushed
rosy
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Gamut
the entire range or extent of something
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fortuitous
Happening or produced by chance
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Hone
To make more acute, intense, or effective
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Gregariousness
Fond of the company of others; sociable
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Inexorable
not to be persuaded, moved, or stopped
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Impervious
not allowing entrance or passage
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Imperious
Marked by arrogant assurance
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Immigrate
To come to live permanently in a country that is not your own
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Inoculation
vaccination against disease
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Indigent
having no money or anything else of value
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Omniscient
knows everything
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ostracize
To exclude from a society or group
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Migrate
to move from one country or region to another, often temporarily
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Labile
readily or continually undergoing chemical, physical, or biological change or breakdown
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obscure
Not known to many people
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Milieu
the physical or social setting in which something occurs or develop Enviornment
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Magnanimous
generous
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Overt
not hidden; open; observable; apparent; manifest
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node
Any bulge or swelling of an anatomical structure or part
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obsolescent
Being in the process of passing out of use or usefulness
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Ominous
“portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious.”
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novice
A person new to a particular occupation, activity, etc.; apprentice; beginner
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Parsimonious
not spending money
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Practical
practical”
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Precipitous
Sudden
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placate
To stop from being angry; appease; pacify; mollify.
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Rancid
unpleasant”
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scarcity
A situation in which something is not easy to find or get
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Ravenous
very eager or greedy for food, satisfaction, or gratification insatiable
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Superfluous
exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
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suppurate
To form or discharge pus
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tenacious
Holding fast; characterized by keeping a firm hold
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Terse
using few words.”
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Virulent
destructive course
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Expedite
to accelerate”
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Rancid
unpleasant
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Veracity
Conformity to facts; accuracy
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scarcity
A situation in which something is not easy to find or get
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Invasive
ending to infiltrate surrounding healthy tissue
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suppurate
To form or discharge pus
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Trauma
body wound
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Incidence
the rate or range of occurrence
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auspiciously
In a way that suggests a positive and successful future
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Invalid
ill or injured for a long time
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Rationale
a statement of reasons
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Prophylactic
prevent disease
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remission
Subsiding of the symptoms of a disease

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