Hesi A2 Vocab

Question 1

Febrile

Answer 1

fever

Question 1

Languid

Answer 1

Lack of energy/enthusiasm

Question 2

Concise

Answer 2

expressing in very few words

Question 3

Potent

Answer 3

Chemically effective

Question 4

Euthanasia

Answer 4

practice of causing death painlessly

Question 5

amenable

Answer 5

accept/ influenced by suggesition

Question 6

Palliative

Answer 6

reduce pain

Question 7

Burgeoning

Answer 7

grow/ develop quickly

Question 8

accountable

Answer 8

justification of something

Question 9

laceration

Answer 9

torn/ ragged wound

Question 10

Entreat

Answer 10

to plead with inorder to persuade

Question 11

Ruminate

Answer 11

think carefully/seriously

Question 12

apathetic

Answer 12

showing/ felling no interest or concern

Question 13

Omniscient

Answer 13

knowing /seeing everything

Question 14

ambivalent

Answer 14

mixed feeling about something/someone

Question 15

Boisterous

Answer 15

Rough/noisy

Question 16

Parasite

Answer 16

an animal that lives inside another animal and feeds from it

Question 17

cicatrix

Answer 17

new tissue that forms over wound

Question 18

Diligent

Answer 18

someone who uses a lot of effort

Question 19

acute

Answer 19

sharpness of sudden onset

Question 20

pensive

Answer 20

engaged in deep thought

Question 21

rigidity

Answer 21

stiff of unyielding

Question 22

proliferation

Answer 22

to grow rapid by production of new cells

Question 23

adulation

Answer 23

excessive praise

Question 24

adverse

Answer 24

negative/ harmful effect

Question 25

flushed

Answer 25

rosy/red skin

Question 26

irreproachable

Answer 26

without fault/ impossible to criticize

Question 27

barren

Answer 27

land too poor to make vegetation

Question 28

vertigo

Answer 28

loss of balence

Question 29

occluded

Answer 29

close.shut, stop

Question 30

patency

Answer 30

open/unobsttructed

Question 31

construct

Answer 31

idea/theory

Question 32

democracy

Answer 32

common people hold political power

Question 33

ambivalent

Answer 33

having mixed feeling about something/someone

Question 34

perpetual

Answer 34

never ending

Question 35

asine

Answer 35

stupid

Question 36

Querulous

Answer 36

complaining in whining manner

Question 37

engender

Answer 37

give rise to feeling/situation

Question 38

obdurate

Answer 38

stubborn

Question 39

eviceration

Answer 39

removing all organs from body

Question 40

paroxysm

Answer 40

powerful strong feeling (cant be controlled)

Question 41

tractable

Answer 41

easily dealt with

Question 42

Daugnting

Answer 42

the person making you feel worried

Question 43

laden

Answer 43

holding alot

Question 44

Boorish

Answer 44

rude

Question 45

engmatic

Answer 45

mysterious

Question 46

candid

Answer 46

person who is honest

Question 47

brawly

Answer 47

aggressive

Question 48

parsimonious

Answer 48

not wiling to spend money/ give alot of sunm

Question 49

pernicious

Answer 49

harmful effect/influence

Question 50

resistance

Answer 50

refusing to accept

Question 51

reason

Answer 51

ability to think and make judgements

Question 52

export

Answer 52

send products to another country

Question 53

import

Answer 53

buy products from another country

Question 54

immigrate

Answer 54

live permanently in country that is not own

Question 55

Emigrate

Answer 55

leave country permanently

Question 56

autocratic

Answer 56

demanding people obey completely

Question 57

ostracize

Answer 57

exclude from society or group

Question 58

emetic

Answer 58

causes vomit

Question 59

prophylactic

Answer 59

prevents disease

Question 60

Panacea

Answer 60

something that will solve all problems

Question 61

disregard

Answer 61

indifference/carlessness

Question 62

stimulus

Answer 62

something that causes growth

Question 63

vacuous

Answer 63

not showing intelligent thought or purpose

Question 64

augment

Answer 64

make something greater by adding to it

Question 65

eradicate

Answer 65

get rid of completly

Question 66

vivisection

Answer 66

cutting into living animals for increasing medical knowledge

Question 67

Circumspect

Answer 67

person who does not take risk

Question 68

Obdurate

Answer 68

person who stubbornly refuses to change opinion

Question 69

Mercurial

Answer 69

changes suddenly and often

Question 70

clamor

Answer 70

load complaint

Question 71

latter

Answer 71

near end than beginning

Question 72

amendable

Answer 72

wiling to be influenced by suggestion

Question 73

jaunty

Answer 73

care free

Question 74

helicon

Answer 74

large circular tuba

Question 75

subdue

Answer 75

reduce force to prevent sum from developing

Question 76

auspicious

Answer 76

suggesting a positive future

Question 77

assessment

Answer 77

act of judging/deciding amt and importance of something

Question 78

obscure

Answer 78

not known by many people

Question 79

staggered

Answer 79

shocked or surprised

Question 80

invalid

Answer 80

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

Question 81

ascetic

Answer 81

person who avoids physical pleasure

Question 82

inferior

Answer 82

of little less importance

Question 83

Benevolent

Answer 83

characterized by doing good

Question 84

impervious

Answer 84

not allowing entrance or passage

Question 85

untoward

Answer 85

unfavorable

Question 86

discrete

Answer 86

apart or detached from others

Question 87

novice

Answer 87

new person to particular activity

Question 88

Tenacious

Answer 88

holding fast/ keeping firm hold

Question 89

amendable

Answer 89

willing to acccept/ influenced by suggestion

Question 90

hone

Answer 90

to make acute, intense or effective

Question 91

dejected

Answer 91

low in spirit

Question 92

Affably

Answer 92

easy to approach and talk to

Question 93

distended

Answer 93

expanded from internal pressure

Question 94

overt

Answer 94

not hidden/open