Vocabulary Flashcards by Hannah Yardley

What vocab word is an egg of an insect, especially a louse

Nits
Ringlets
Bed bugs
Dandruff

Nit

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What vocab word refers to someone/something that lasts forever and is never-ending?

Perpetual
Reprehensible
Ephemeral
Apathetic

Perpetual

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What vocab word refers to someone who is careful not to take risks?

Enervating
Avaricious
Circumspect
Pugnacious

Circumspect

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What vocab word that is a subjective idea or theory?

Social
Biological
Gender
Construct

Construct

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What vocab word is the condition of being open or unobstructed?

lens
assistance
adulation
patency

Patency

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What vocab word is the action of giving someone a weak form of a disease as a protection against it?
Inoculation
Embolism
Proportion
Abundance

Incoulation

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What vocab word is having mixed feelings/ contradictory ideas about something or someone?

Injurious
Asinine
Perpetual
Ambivalent

Ambivalent

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What vocab word is cause or give rise to a feeling, situation, or condition.

eradicate
engender
imply
infer

Engender

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What vocab word is someone who refuses to change their opinion/ course of action

Apathetic
Auspicious
Burgeoning
Obdurate

Obdurate

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What is the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence?

The trees, (laden )with fruits, had benefited from the rainy weather.

Too poor to produce much or any vegetation

Needing a lot of time and effort

Having a very bright or beautiful appearance

Carrying or holding a lot of something

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What vocab word is someone or something that is mysterious and impossible to understand completely?

Emetic
Enigmatic
Exhilarated
Apathetic

Engimatic

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What vocab word is not willing to spend money or to give or use a lot of something?

Magnanimous
Parsimonious
Tractable
Pernicious

Parsimonious

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What is the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence?

Amber, a material widely used for jewelry, decorative objects, and for its healing purposes, is fossilized tree (resin).

The part of a tree, arm, etc. that is left after another part has been removed

A grey, green, or yellow plant-like organism that grows on rocks, walls, and trees

A clear, yellow, sticky substance produced by some trees and plants and used to make varnish, medicine, or plastics, or a similar substance produced chemically for use in industry

A new growth of a plant

A clear, yellow, sticky substance produced by some trees and plants and used to make varnish, medicine, or plastics, or a similar substance produced chemically for use in industry

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What vocab word is someone demanding that people obey completely without asking about anyone else opinion

Ambiguous
Illogical
Illicit
Autocratic

Autocratic

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What vocab word is an obstruction of an artery, typically by a clot of blood or an air bubble?

Ebola
hemorrhage
Cholesterol
Embolism

Embolism

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What is the meaning of “paroxysm”?

A contrary or opposite opinion, concept, or characteristic

The process of removing one or all of the organs from the inside of a body.

A sudden and powerful expression of strong feeling, especially one that you cannot control

A condition in which the tissue around the teeth becomes swollen and the gums move away from the teeth

A sudden and powerful expression of strong feeling, especially one that you cannot control

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What vocab word is referring to someone or something that changes suddenly and often; volatile; temperamental

Notorious
Obsolescent
Prolific
Mercurial

Mercurial

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What vocab word is a view of especially beautiful view from a high position?

Vista
Lens
Motif
Scope

vista

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What is the meaning of panacea?

A good reason or explanation for something

Something that will solve all problems

An area that is sore, scraped or rubbed away

A sensation of whirling and loss of balance

Something that will solve all problems

What is the meaning of “prophylactic”?

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

A medication that opens or dilates blood vessels

A substance used to reduce or prevent acid collecting in the body, especially in the stomach

Something that is intended to prevent disease

What vocab word is something that causes vomit

opiate
emetic
narcotic
prophylactic

emetic

Which word has a similar meaning to “abundance; excess”?

Veracity
Secession
Plethora
Antithesis

plethora

What vocab word is someone/something that is honest and telling the truth?

Candid
Secretive
Querulous
Apathetic

Candid

What vocab word is someone/something is extremely stupid?

Asinine
Endogenous
Indigent
Aggrieved

Asinine

What vocab word is someone producing a great number or amount of something? Vacuous Fatal Rigorous Prolific

prolific

What vocab word is not showing intelligent thought or purpose Resentful Benign Vacuous Astute

Vacous

What vocab word is to make something greater by adding to it Enshrine Eradicate Amputate Augment

augment

What is the meaning of “vivisection”? A medical operation in which an opening is made in a person's neck and trachea, usually in order to help them to breathe The process of preserving a dead body as a mummy The cutting into or other use of living animals in tests for the purpose of increasing medical knowledge An opening that is made in something with a sharp tool, especially in someone's body during an operation

The cutting into or other use of living animals in tests for the purpose of increasing medical knowledge

What vocab word is someone who complains in a rather petulant or whining manner Astute Querulous Endogenous Assiduous

querulous

What vocab word is having a very harmful effect or influence? Taciturn Inviolable Flaccid Pernicious

Pernicious

What vocab word is the quality of having a friendly and cheerful manner? Laparoscopy Frigidity Haze Geniality

Geniality

Precipitous is best defined as being damp gentle swift dull

swift

What is another word for cicatrix? beetle scalpel antidote scar

scar

What is the meaning of “tractable”? Looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality Having or expressing a lively, cheerful, and self-confident manner Not able or not likely to cause harm Easily dealt with, controlled, or persuaded

Easily dealt with, controlled, or persuaded

What is the meaning of “autocratic”? Someone who believes in, encourages, or supports freedom and equality between people and groups Someone who states that all people are equal and should share equally in a country's money, or the political systems based on these beliefs Someone who believes in a society without different social classes in which the methods of production are owned and controlled by all its members and everyone works as much as they can and receives what they need Demanding that people obey completely, without asking or caring about anyone else's opinions

Demanding that people obey completely, without asking or caring about anyone else's opinions

What is the meaning of the underlined word The chemicals in plastic containers may be (deleterious) to children’s health? Harmful deleting Delightful Inoffensive

Harmful

What is the meaning of perused? Passed in judgement on Engaged in Read throughly Took notes on

Took notes on

A blood vessel that is distended is Overturned Swollen Twisted Overlong

Swollen

An overt symptom is Dangerous Hidden Obvious Controlled

Obvious

The pain of childbirth may often be (acute) Escalating Emergent Eased Intense

Intense

We will do more tests as the data so far are (inconclusive) Unsettled Convincing Unfavorable Bewildering

Unsettled

The quality, safety, and (efficacy) of counterfeit medicines are not known. Effectiveness Significance Orollary Conclusion

Effectiveness

Negotiation were conducted under the AEGIS of the U.S

Aegis Control, protection

A sum total of many things Aggregate Annual Applicable Assiduous

Aggregate The council was an aggregate of three regional assembles

Someone who is very careful and hardworking. Assiduous Annual Applicable Aid

Assiduous

Of a route or journey, longer than the most direct way Circuit Circuitous Chronology Cavity

Circuitous

Something that is offsetting or making up for something Compensatory Complication Comply Consider

Compensatory