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Hesi A2 Vocab Flashcards

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Febrile

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fever

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Languid

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Lack of energy/enthusiasm

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Concise

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expressing in very few words

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Potent

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Chemically effective

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Euthanasia

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practice of causing death painlessly

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amenable

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accept/ influenced by suggesition

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Palliative

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reduce pain

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Burgeoning

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grow/ develop quickly

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accountable

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justification of something

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laceration

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torn/ ragged wound

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Entreat

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to plead with inorder to persuade

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Ruminate

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think carefully/seriously

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apathetic

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showing/ felling no interest or concern

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Omniscient

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knowing /seeing everything

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ambivalent

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mixed feeling about something/someone

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15
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Boisterous

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Rough/noisy

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Parasite

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an animal that lives inside another animal and feeds from it

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17
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cicatrix

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new tissue that forms over wound

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Diligent

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someone who uses a lot of effort

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acute

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sharpness of sudden onset

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pensive

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engaged in deep thought

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21
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rigidity

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stiff of unyielding

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proliferation

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to grow rapid by production of new cells

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adulation

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excessive praise

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adverse

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negative/ harmful effect

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flushed

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rosy/red skin

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irreproachable

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without fault/ impossible to criticize

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barren

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land too poor to make vegetation

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28
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vertigo

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loss of balence

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occluded

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close.shut, stop

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30
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patency

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open/unobsttructed

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31
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construct

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idea/theory

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32
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democracy

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common people hold political power

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ambivalent

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having mixed feeling about something/someone

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34
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perpetual

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never ending

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35
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asine

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stupid

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36
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Querulous

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complaining in whining manner

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engender

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give rise to feeling/situation

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obdurate

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stubborn

39
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eviceration

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removing all organs from body

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paroxysm

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powerful strong feeling (cant be controlled)

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tractable

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easily dealt with

42
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Daugnting

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the person making you feel worried

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laden

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holding alot

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Boorish

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rude

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engmatic

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mysterious

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candid

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person who is honest

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brawly

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aggressive

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parsimonious

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not wiling to spend money/ give alot of sunm

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pernicious

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harmful effect/influence

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resistance

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refusing to accept

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reason

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ability to think and make judgements

52
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export

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send products to another country

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import

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buy products from another country

54
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immigrate

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live permanently in country that is not own

55
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Emigrate

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leave country permanently

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autocratic

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demanding people obey completely

57
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ostracize

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exclude from society or group

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emetic

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causes vomit

59
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prophylactic

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prevents disease

60
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Panacea

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something that will solve all problems

61
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disregard

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indifference/carlessness

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stimulus

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something that causes growth

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vacuous

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not showing intelligent thought or purpose

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augment

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make something greater by adding to it

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eradicate

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get rid of completly

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vivisection

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cutting into living animals for increasing medical knowledge

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Circumspect

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person who does not take risk

68
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Obdurate

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person who stubbornly refuses to change opinion

69
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Mercurial

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changes suddenly and often

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clamor

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load complaint

71
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latter

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near end than beginning

72
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amendable

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wiling to be influenced by suggestion

73
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jaunty

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care free

74
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helicon

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large circular tuba

75
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subdue

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reduce force to prevent sum from developing

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auspicious

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suggesting a positive future

77
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assessment

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act of judging/deciding amt and importance of something

78
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obscure

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not known by many people

79
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staggered

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shocked or surprised

80
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invalid

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person who is ill and has to be cared for by others

81
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ascetic

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person who avoids physical pleasure

82
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inferior

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of little less importance

83
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Benevolent

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characterized by doing good

84
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impervious

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not allowing entrance or passage

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untoward

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unfavorable

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discrete

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apart or detached from others

87
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novice

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new person to particular activity

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Tenacious

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holding fast/ keeping firm hold

89
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amendable

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willing to acccept/ influenced by suggestion

90
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hone

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to make acute, intense or effective

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dejected

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low in spirit

92
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Affably

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easy to approach and talk to

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distended

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expanded from internal pressure

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overt

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not hidden/open

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