McGraw Hill Vocab

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Prolific

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abundantly creative and productive

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Vacuous

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Empty space

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Circumspect

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Cautious or Guarded

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Stanch

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to bring to a stop especially when referring to the flow of blood or other bodily fluid

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Ostracize

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To banish or exile

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Indigent

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In need

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Nit

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the egg or young of a louse (parasite)

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Augment

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to make something greater or add to it

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Quarantine

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separate very contagious patients from the general population

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Emetic

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to induce vomiting

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Opiate

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a drug with morphine-like effects

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Prophylactic

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a medicine or course of action used to prevent disease

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Panacea

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A remedy for all illness

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Evisceration

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surgical removal of an organ’s contents

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vivisection

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the practice of performing operations on live animals for the purpose of experimentation or scientific research

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Flux

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discharge from the bowels

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Regulations

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rules and laws used to regulate conduct

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Querulous

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to complain

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Pernicious

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causing great injury/ destructive

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Accountable

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responsible

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Distended

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to expand/swollen

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Viscous

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thick, sticky, gelatinous

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Collusion

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Conspiring together for the purpose of fraud

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Obsolete

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Gone out of style or been outdated

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Lethargic

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drowsy, forgetful, dull

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Onerous

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burdensome

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Altruistic

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gives unselfishly; charitable

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Trepidation

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uneasy for have misgivings

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Precept

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commands or rules for moral conduct/ written guidelines or directions

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Truculent

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Fierceness/ argumentative

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Counseled

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advising

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Margin

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edge or border

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Sallow

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sickly, yellowish hue

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Exemplary

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outstanding or praiseworthy

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Nebulous

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cloudy, hazy, or vague

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larynx

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Voice Box

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Contours

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The outline of a shape or object

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Incorrigible

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Uncorrectable/incurable

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Deteriorating

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to make or become worse

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Precipitous

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steep or fast moving/ swift

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Predispose

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receptive or susceptible to it

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Soporific

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causing sleepiness

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Disseminating

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to make public or broadcast

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Assiduous

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extremely helpful/ hardworker/industrious

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Instigate

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to activate or stimulate

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Inhibiting

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held back/ hindered

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Exacerbated

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made worse/ intensified

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Critique

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To appraise

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Contrite

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Regretful of your actions

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Guileless

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Straighforward/ frank

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Redundancy

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Surplus/ overflow

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Atrophied

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wasting away/ withered/ shrunken

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Anterior

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near the front

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Gravid

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pregnancy

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Riddled

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being affected throughout/ overrun

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Mitigates

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becoming less severe or critical

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Banal

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ordinary

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Ramifications

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consequences of an action

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Respite

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an interval of rest and relief

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Asymmetric

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irregular or uneven

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Counterfeit

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fake

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Efficacy

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effectiveness/ power to produce intended results

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Debilitating

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weakens or incapacitates a patient

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Adroit

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skillful

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Torpid

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Inactive/Sluggish

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Contravene

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to go against/ disreguard

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Caudal

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towards the feet

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Aseptic

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not infected or diseased; purified