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Flashcards by Renee Hamilton, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Renee Hamilton
over 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Abate | Definition: Reduce in degree or intensity. Sentence: I hope this medicine will abate the pain in my leg. |
| Abdicate | Definition: To give up or leave. Sentence: It is easier to abdicate your responsibilities than to be a good citizen. |
| Anecdote | Definition: Short story or account of an event. Sentence: The nurses anecdote about her shift made us all laugh. |
| Assiduous | Definition: Very careful and hardworking. Sentence: The nurse had a assiduous attitude while caring for her patients. |
| Benevolent | Definition: Showing sympathy, understanding, and generosity. Sentence: Holding the door open for Marie was very benevolent of you. |
| Bias | Definition: Unfair preference or dislike. Sentence: Some pateints are bias against young nurses. |
| Boisterous | Definition: rough; rowdy; unruly Sentence: Your boisterous actions at school cannot be tolerated. |
| Brazen | Definition: Bold or unrestrained by normal standards. Sentence: In a brazen assault, the gang fired their weapons at the policeman. |
| Brusque | Definition: Attitude of shortness or rudness; gruff. Sentence: What did I do to make you so brusque with me? |
| Capacious | Definition: Large in size or capacity. Sentence: My patient is obese so we need a more capacious bed. |
| Circuitous | Definition: Lengthy due to being indirect or rounabout. Senence: It seems like you took a circuitous route, rather than using a more direct route. |
| Contingent | Definition: Depending on something not certain; conditional. Sentence: The job offer was contingent upon the return of a clean background review. |
| Copious | Definition: Abundant and plentiful Sentence: To avoid having a hangover, do not drink a copious amount of alcohol. |
| Deleterious | Definition: Harmful or deadly to living things. Sentence: The overpopulation of large snakes in the forest is deleterious to the wild rat population. |
| Deter | Definition: To prevent or discourage. Sentence: We bought a German Shepard to deter any uninvited visitors. |
| Diligent | Definition: Persistent and hardworking. Sentence: Skyler is a diligent worker. |
| Disdain | Definition: Lack of respect or intense dislike. Sentence: Pacifists are likely to disdain my right to gun ownership. |
| Endogenous | Definiton: Something produced within the body. Sentence: Clostridium is formed by endogenous spores in various stages. |
| Enervating | Definition: Causing debilitation or weakness. Sentence: The bosses rules were enervating and demoralizing. |
| Ephemeral | Definition: Lasting only for a short period of time. Sentence: Because of her ephemeral memory, she forgets things all the time! |
| Exacerbate | Definition: Make more bitter, angry, or violent; irriutated or agitated. Sentence: If you do not take your medicine, you condition will exacerbate, and you will feel worse. |
| Exasperate | Definition: Worsen, make angry, or frustrated. Sentence: The exasperated patient refused to leave the hospital until they got lunch. |
| Exogenous | Definition: Something produced outside the body. Sentence: A snail has an exogenous shell. |
| Extenuating | Definition: Diminish the seriousness of something. Sentence: The doctor reduced the patient's meds because of extenuating circumstances |
| Fortitude | Definition: Strength or endurance during a difficult situation. Sentence: Most successful businessmen are not afraid to show fortitude when they face failure. |
| Fortuitous | Definition: Occurring by happy chance Sentence: Mark proved to be fortuitous by selecting all six winning lotto numbers. |
| Garble | Definition: Confusing, not understandable. Sentence: Drunk patients often garble their words so you cannot underzstand them. |
| Hematologic | Definition: Dealing with blood. Sentence: Laboratory people handle hematologic proceses. |
| Hyperbole | Definition: Exaggerating; making something more than it is. Sentence: Although what I said may sound like a hyperbole, it really is the truth. |
| Imminent | Definition: Very likely to happen Sentence: It looks imminent that my patient will be discharged today. |
| Impending | Definition: The point of occurring; imminent. Sentence: We are impending my patients results. |
| Impetuous | Definition: Undue haste without thought of consiquences. Sentence: His impetuous behavior landed him in prison. |
| Inconsequential | Definition: Something without importance or significance. Sentence: At the end of the day, everything is inconsequential except for family. |
| Insidious | Definition: Operating stealthy with evil effect; deceitful; treacherous. Sentence: The insidious patient planned to con the hospital out of their fortune. |
| Labile | Definition: Unstable or likely to change Sentence: Some drugs are lible in their affectiveness. |
| Languid | Definiton: Tired and slow. Sentence: I'm feeling languid today from lack of sleep. |
| Novice | Definition: A beginner: inexperienced. Sentence: When it came to coding complicated functions, the inexperienced coder was a novice. |
| Ominous | Definition: Portentous. Foretelling disaster; threatening. Sentence: The warning sounds of an ominous storm made us run for cover |
| Overt | Definition: Obvious or visible Sentence: In some countries, racial prejudice is overt and not disguised in the least. |
| Paradox | Defintion: Appearing conflicting or contradicting. Sentence: In a strange paradox, the medicine made Heather sick before it made her better. |
| Paroxysmal | Definition: A spasm or a violent outburst Sentence: The patient has paroxysmal spurts every hour. |
| Pragmatic | Definition: Concerned with practical matters and results. Sentence: The scientist had a pragmatic approach to dealing with the water crisis. |
| Precipitous | Definition: Done rapidly without thinking. Sentence: You should think before you do precipitous stunts that endanger your life! |
| Precocious | Definition: Showing advance development or maturity at an early age. Sentence: Although Jack is smart, he is a bit too precocious at six years of age. |
| Prudent | Definition: Careful and sensible; using good judgement. Sentence: It is prudent not to go swimming during a hurricane. |
| Sagacity | Definition: Sound knowledge, judgment, and foresight. Sentence: The coach’s sagacity enabled the team to win. |
| Sublingual | Definition: Beneath the tongue Sentence: The nurse puts the thermometer probe sublingual. |
| Superfluous | Definition: More than is needed, desired, or necessary. Sentence: In the age of technology, sending letters by postal mail seems superfluous to me. |
| Tactful | Definition: Showing concern to not offend others. Sentence: The doctor was tactful as he told the woman about her incurable illness |
| Tenacious | Definition: Determined without change or doubt from the plan. Sentence: Because Eva was tenacious, she rose each time she fell. |
| Terse | Definition: To the point; consise. Sentence: As a nurse you should give terse answers to questions. |
| Transdermal | Definition: Passing through the skin. Sentence: The ladocaine patch is transdermal. |
| Trite | Definiton: Dull; common. Sentence: The patients pain is trite. |
| Venerable | Definiton: Worthy of respect because of wisdom or age. Sentence: Mother Teresa is very venerable because she's been working as a tech for 20 years. |
| Venerate | Definition: Regard with much repect. Sentence: The Bible says we should venerate our parents and our elders. |
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