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1
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What vocab word is an egg of an insect, especially a louse

Nits
Ringlets
Bed bugs
Dandruff

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Nit

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

Perpetual
Reprehensible
Ephemeral
Apathetic

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Perpetual

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

Enervating
Avaricious
Circumspect
Pugnacious

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Circumspect

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4
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What vocab word that is a subjective idea or theory?

Social
Biological
Gender
Construct

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Construct

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5
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What vocab word is the condition of being open or unobstructed?

lens
assistance
adulation
patency

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Patency

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6
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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

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Incoulation

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7
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What vocab word is having mixed feelings/ contradictory ideas about something or someone?

Injurious
Asinine
Perpetual
Ambivalent

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Ambivalent

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

eradicate
engender
imply
infer

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Engender

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9
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What vocab word is someone who refuses to change their opinion/ course of action

Apathetic
Auspicious
Burgeoning
Obdurate

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Obdurate

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10
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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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Carrying or holding a lot of something

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11
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What vocab word is someone or something that is mysterious and impossible to understand completely?

Emetic
Enigmatic
Exhilarated
Apathetic

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Engimatic

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12
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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

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Parsimonious

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13
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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

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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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14
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What vocab word is someone demanding that people obey completely without asking about anyone else opinion

Ambiguous
Illogical
Illicit
Autocratic

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Autocratic

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15
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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

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Embolism

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16
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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

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

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17
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What vocab word is referring to someone or something that changes suddenly and often; volatile; temperamental

Notorious
Obsolescent
Prolific
Mercurial

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Mercurial

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18
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What vocab word is a view of especially beautiful view from a high position?

Vista
Lens
Motif
Scope

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vista

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19
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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

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Something that will solve all problems

20
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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

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Something that is intended to prevent disease

21
Q

What vocab word is something that causes vomit

opiate
emetic
narcotic
prophylactic

A

emetic

22
Q

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

Veracity
Secession
Plethora
Antithesis

A

plethora

23
Q

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

Candid
Secretive
Querulous
Apathetic

A

Candid

24
Q

What vocab word is someone/something is extremely stupid?

Asinine
Endogenous
Indigent
Aggrieved

A

Asinine

25
Q

What vocab word is someone producing a great number or amount of something?

Vacuous
Fatal
Rigorous
Prolific

A

prolific

26
Q

What vocab word is not showing intelligent thought or purpose

Resentful
Benign
Vacuous
Astute

A

Vacous

27
Q

What vocab word is to make something greater by adding to it

Enshrine
Eradicate
Amputate
Augment

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augment

28
Q

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

A

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

29
Q

What vocab word is someone who complains in a rather petulant or whining manner

Astute
Querulous
Endogenous
Assiduous

A

querulous

30
Q

What vocab word is having a very harmful effect or influence?

Taciturn
Inviolable
Flaccid
Pernicious

A

Pernicious

31
Q

What vocab word is the quality of having a friendly and cheerful manner?

Laparoscopy
Frigidity
Haze
Geniality

A

Geniality

32
Q

Precipitous is best defined as being

damp
gentle
swift
dull

A

swift

33
Q

What is another word for cicatrix?

beetle
scalpel
antidote
scar

A

scar

34
Q

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

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Easily dealt with, controlled, or persuaded

35
Q

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

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

36
Q

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

Harmful
deleting
Delightful
Inoffensive

A

Harmful

37
Q

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

A

Took notes on

38
Q

A blood vessel that is distended is
Overturned
Swollen
Twisted
Overlong

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Swollen

39
Q

An overt symptom is
Dangerous
Hidden
Obvious
Controlled

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Obvious

40
Q

The pain of childbirth may often be (acute)

Escalating
Emergent
Eased
Intense

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Intense

41
Q

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

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Unsettled

42
Q

The quality, safety, and (efficacy) of counterfeit medicines are not known.

Effectiveness
Significance
Orollary
Conclusion

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Effectiveness

43
Q

Negotiation were conducted under the AEGIS of the U.S

A

Aegis
Control, protection

44
Q

A sum total of many things
Aggregate
Annual
Applicable
Assiduous

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Aggregate
The council was an aggregate of three regional assembles

45
Q

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

A

Assiduous

46
Q

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

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Circuitous

47
Q

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

A

Compensatory

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