Vocabulary Builder: Expanding Your Word Power, Exams of Nursing

Download Vocabulary Builder: Expanding Your Word Power and more Exams Nursing in PDF only on Docsity! GMAT GMAT Vocabulary- questions answered impetus - answer ✅✅(n.) the force or energy with which something moves; momentum. obsolete - answer ✅✅(adj.) no longer in use or in practice. probable - answer ✅✅(adj.) likely to happen. susceptibility - answer ✅✅(n.) a vulnerability or lack of resistance to damage or disease ; easily affected persecuted - answer ✅✅v. annoyed or harassed consistently intestine - answer ✅✅(n.) That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus. smearing - answer ✅✅(Adj.) rubbing all over GMAT bowers - answer ✅✅(n.) shaded, leafy area ; structures built to attract mates (building and choosing are learned behaviors) inept - answer ✅✅(Adj.) revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse Ex. "an inept remark"; "it was tactless to bring up those disagreeable" pharmaceutical - answer ✅✅(Adj.) of or relating to pharmacy or pharmacists Ex. "the pharmaceutical industry" impostor - answer ✅✅(n). a swindler, deceiver; one who uses a false name or character in order to cheat syn:cheat, trickster, four- flushed, pretender excerpt - answer ✅✅(n.) a passage taken from a book, article, etc.; (v.) to take such a passage; to quote afflict - answer ✅✅(v.) cause pain or suffering in Ex. "afflict with the plague"; "That debasement of the verbal currency that afflicts terms used in advertisement" spleen - answer ✅✅(n.) a large dark-red oval organ on the left side of the body between the stomach and the diaphragm Ex. produces cells involved in immune responses thence - answer ✅✅(adv.)(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result Ex. "therefore X must be true"; "the eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory"; "we were young and thence optimistic"; "it is late and thus we must go"; "the witness is biased and plausible - answer ✅✅(adj.) having an appearance of truth or reason; seemingly worthy of approval or acceptance; credible; believable GMAT predisposition - answer ✅✅(n.) The state of being predisposed; tendency, inclination, or susceptibility. Ex.The young politician seemed to have a ... to believe that he was always right and that he didn't need to listen to anyone else. divest - answer ✅✅(v.) reduce or dispose of Ex. cease to hold (an investment); "The company decided to divest"; "the board of trustees divested $20 million in real estate property"; "There was pressure on the univeristy to disinvest in South Africa" collusion - answer ✅✅(n.) secret agreement or cooperation perfunctorily - answer ✅✅(adv.) in a set manner without serious attention Ex. "they answered my letter pro forma"; "he kissed her cheek perfunctorily" dispense - answer ✅✅(v.) 1. deal out; distribute 2. (followed by the preposition with) do without; get along without; forgo myopic - answer ✅✅(adj.) nearsighted; lacking a broad, realistic view of a situation; lacking foresight or discernment collusive - answer ✅✅(adj.) acting together in secret toward a fraudulent or illegal end tacit - answer ✅✅(adj.) indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly Ex. "gave silent consent"; "a tacit agreement"; "the understood provisos of a custody agreement" taciturn - answer ✅✅(adj.) habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little tangential - answer ✅✅(adj.) of superficial relevance if any; peripheral Ex. "a digressive allusion to the day of the week"; "a tangential remark" tantalize - answer ✅✅(v.) harass with persistent criticism or carping GMAT temperate - answer ✅✅(adj.) moderate or self-restrained; not extreme in opinion, statement, etc. tenacious - answer ✅✅(adj.) stubbornly unyielding Ex. "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion" tenet - answer ✅✅(n.) an opinion, belief, or principle held to be true, doctrine tenuous - answer ✅✅(adj.) thin, slender, not dense; lacking clarity or sharpness; of slight importance or significance; lacking a sound basis, poorly supported tepid - answer ✅✅(adj.) lukewarm; unenthusiastic, marked by an absence of interest terse - answer ✅✅(adj.) brief and to the point threadbare - answer ✅✅(adj.) shabby, old and worn throng - answer ✅✅(n.) a large group of people crowded closely together thwart - answer ✅✅(v.) to oppose successfully; to prevent, frustrate topography - answer ✅✅(n.) The art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy. seances - answer ✅✅(n.) a meeting at which a spiritualist attempts to communicate with the dead GMAT topple - answer ✅✅(v.) to fall forward; to overturn, bring about the downfall of torpid - answer ✅✅(adj.) inactive, sluggish, dull tout - answer ✅✅(v.) to solicit customers; to praise or recommend highly tractable - answer ✅✅(adj.) easily managed (controlled or taught or molded) Ex. "tractable young minds"; "gold is tractable"; "the natives...being...of an intelligent tractable disposition"- Samuel Butler trancendent - answer ✅✅(adj.) surpassing,exceeding ordinary limits transgress - answer ✅✅(v.) to go beyond a limit or boundary; to sin, violate a law transient - answer ✅✅(adj.) lasting only a short time, fleeting; (n.) one who stays only a short time transitory - answer ✅✅(adj.) Existing for a short time only. translucent - answer ✅✅(adj.) Permitting light to pass through, but not transparent travail - answer ✅✅(n.) Strenuous physical or mental labor or effort; the labor of childbirth. treatise - answer ✅✅(n.) a formal and systematic exposition in writing of the principles of a subject, generally longer and more detailed than an essay. trenchant - answer ✅✅(adj) sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating GMAT secretarial - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work allegory - answer ✅✅(n.) an expressive style that uses fictional characters and events to describe some subject by suggestive resemblances Ex. an extended metaphor idiosyncratic - answer ✅✅(adj.) peculiar to the individual allow for - answer ✅✅(v.) include in one's calculations / take into consideration (difficulty, error, delay, eventuality) perturbed - answer ✅✅(adj.) thrown into a state of agitated confusion Ex. ('rattled' is an informal term) bifurcation - answer ✅✅(n.) the act of splitting into two branches ; the place where something divides into two branches interspersed - answer ✅✅(adj.) interwoven; with something at intervals in between euphoria - answer ✅✅(n.) a feeling of great happiness or well-being, often with no objective basis preside - answer ✅✅(v.) to occupy the place of authority or control formidable - answer ✅✅(adj.) extremely impressive in strength or excellence ; inspiring fear Ex. "a formidable opponent"; "the challenge was formidable"; "had a formidable array of compositions to his credit"; "the formidable army of brains at the Prime Minister's disposal" plummet - answer ✅✅(v.) to plunge straight down; (n.) a weight fastened to a line GMAT irate - answer ✅✅(adj.) feeling or showing extreme anger Ex. "irate protesters"; "ireful words" emancipation - answer ✅✅(n.) freeing someone from the control of another Ex. especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child relinquish - answer ✅✅(v.) release, as from one's grip Ex. "Let go of the door handle, please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall" bucolic - answer ✅✅(adj.) characteristic of the countryside, rural; relating to shepherds and cowherds, pastoral Ex. "pastoral seminomadic people"; "pastoral land"; "a pastoral economy" reticent - answer ✅✅(adj.) not inclined to speak; reserved; reluctant perennial - answer ✅✅(adj.) recurring again and again Ex. "perennial efforts to stipulate the requirements", lasting three seasons or moreEx. "the common buttercup is a popular perennial plant" cupidity - answer ✅✅(n.) eager or inordinate desire, especially for wealth status quo - answer ✅✅(n.) the existing condition or state of affairs status quo ante - answer ✅✅(n.) the position as it was before retention - answer ✅✅(n.) The keeping of a thing within one's power or possession. disenfranchised - answer ✅✅(adj.) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote GMAT overextended - answer ✅✅(adj.) Situation which occurs when the company has no additional sources to borrow against defy - answer ✅✅(v.) resist or confront with resistanceEx. "The politician defied public opinion"; "The new material withstands even the greatest wear and tear"; "The bridge held" scramble for - answer ✅✅(v.) ~을 쟁탈하다, 빼앗다 speculator - answer ✅✅(n.) One who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit. regulative - answer ✅✅(adj.) restricting according to rules or principles compensatory - answer ✅✅(adj.) making up for; repaying interdependence - answer ✅✅(n.) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) set off - answer ✅✅(v.) 1. to cause to become ignited or to explode. 2. to begin; start. 3. to intensify or improve by contrast. 4.to begin a journey or trip; depart. sterile - answer ✅✅(adj.) deficient in originality or creativity Ex. lacking powers of invention; "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"; "unimaginative development of a musical theme"; "uninspired writing" amorphous - answer ✅✅(adj.) having no definite form or distinct shape Ex. "amorphous clouds of insects"; "an aggregate of formless particles"; "a shapeless mass of protoplasm" GMAT necessitate - answer ✅✅(v.) to make something unavoidable pomp - answer ✅✅(n.) a splendid display in public. restlessness - answer ✅✅(n.) the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active vestiges - answer ✅✅n. Remnants, traces, remains impose - answer ✅✅(adj.) impressive by virtue of size, power or manner, (v.) impose: compel to behave in a certain way commend - answer ✅✅(v.) to praise, express approval; to present as worthy of attention; to commit to the care of Ex. "I commend it to your notice" radical - answer ✅✅(used of opinions and actions) far beyond the norm Ex. "extremist political views"; "radical opinions on education"; "an ultra conservative" junctures - answer ✅✅(n.) points of time deputy - answer ✅✅(n.) one chosen to help or take the place of another or to act in that person's absence break with - answer ✅✅(v.) separate from, discontinue an association decreed - answer ✅✅(adj.) fixed or established especially by order or command Ex. "at the time appointed (or the appointed time") GMAT vibrant - answer ✅✅(adj.) vigorous and active Ex. "a vibrant group that challenged the system"; "a charming and vivacious hostess"; "a vivacious folk dance" impromptu - answer ✅✅(adj., adv.) without preparation, offhand, suddenly or hastily done; (n.) an extemporaneous composition or remark; a minimal piece suggestive of improvisation impressionistic - answer ✅✅of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning Ex. "a surprisingly impressionistic review bearing marks of hasty composition"; "she had impressionistic memories of her childhood" ellipsis - answer ✅✅(n.) omission of words necessary for the complete syntactical construction of a sentence, but not necessary for understanding it hyperbole - answer ✅✅(n.) extravagant exaggeration deliberation - answer ✅✅(n.) the trait of thoughtfulness in action or decision Ex. "he was a man of judicial deliberation" scrupulous - answer ✅✅(adj.) exact, careful, attending thoroughly to details; having high moral standards intrinsic - answer ✅✅(adj.) belonging to someone or something by its very nature, essential, inherent; originating in a bodily organ or part inception - answer ✅✅(n.) the beginning, start, earliest stage of some process, institution, etc. zenith - answer ✅✅n. maximum; the highest point GMAT ambivalence - answer ✅✅n. simultaneous existence of opposing feelings; uncertainty as to what to do contrariety - answer ✅✅(n.) the relation between contraries; opposition or inconsistency between 2+ things deed - answer ✅✅(n.) a notable achievement Ex. "he performed a great deed"; , a legal document signed and sealed and delivered to effect a transfer of property and to show the legal right to possess it Ex. "he signed the deed"; "he kept the title to his car in the glove compartment" aquiescence - answer ✅✅(n.) acceptance, agreement, Passive Compliance quarry - answer ✅✅(v.) to cut or take from (or as if from) a quarry; (n.) a place from which stone is taken; something that is hunted or pursued leery - answer ✅✅(adj) openly distrustful and unwilling to confide, alert, suspicious cessation - answer ✅✅a stopping Ex. "a cessation of the thunder" preponderance - answer ✅✅(adj.) superiority in importance or quantity Ex. Britain's preponderance of naval might secured the nation's role as a military power impass - answer ✅✅(n.) a problem or predicament with no obvious resolution predicament - answer ✅✅(n.) a situation from which extrication is difficult especially an unpleasant or trying one Ex. "finds himself in a most awkward predicament"; "the woeful plight of homeless people" extricate - answer ✅✅(v.) to free from entanglements or difficulties; to remove with effort GMAT imperious - answer ✅✅(adj.) overbearing, arrogant; seeking to dominate; pressing, compelling flyspecks - answer ✅✅(n) a speck or tiny stain from the excrement of a fly sublime - answer ✅✅(adj.) lofty, grand, exalted Ex. "The homeless man sadly pondered his former wealth and once sublime existence." vandalism - answer ✅✅(n.) deliberate and pointless destruction of public or private property - SYNONYMS: willful destruction, malicious defacement strip - answer ✅✅(v.) take off or remove Ex. "strip a wall of its wallpaper" declaim - answer ✅✅(v.) speak against in an impassioned manner, to speak in a dramatic, impassioned, or blustering manner inverse - answer ✅✅opposite in nature or effect or relation to another quantity Ex. "a term is in inverse proportion to another term if it increases (or decreases) as the other decreases (or increases)" heed - answer ✅✅(v) to pay careful attention to, notice; to be guided by; (n) close attention or consideration astray - answer ✅✅(adj ; adv)being lost or on the wrong way dispassionately - answer ✅✅(adv) without emotion, impartially repute - answer ✅✅(n/v) estimation in the view of others-n-/to consider as specified-v- GMAT regressive - answer ✅✅(adj.) disposed to move ("step") backward; retrogressive encephalitis - answer ✅✅inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus Ex. symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever ('phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) saturated - answer ✅✅(adj.) being the most concentrated solution possible at a given temperature Ex. unable to dissolve still more of a substance; "a saturated solution" injunction - answer ✅✅(law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity Ex. "injunction were formerly obtained by writ but now by a judicial order" dissipate - answer ✅✅(v.) to cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure plow - answer ✅✅(v.) deal with verbally or in some form of artistic expression Ex. "This book deals with incest"; "The course covered all of Western Civilization"; "The new book treats the history of China", to turn over dirt so seeds can be planted carousel - answer ✅✅(n) merry-go-round instigate - answer ✅✅(v.) to urge on; to stir up, provoke, start, incite divert - answer ✅✅(v.) withdraw (money) and move into a different location, often secretly and with dishonest intentions ardent - answer ✅✅(adj.) glowing or shining like fire disciple - answer ✅✅(n.) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another GMAT cursorily - answer ✅✅(adv.) hasty and therefore not done thorough philanthropic - answer ✅✅(adj.) generous in assistance to the poor Ex. "a benevolent contributor"; "eleemosynary relief"; "philanthropic contributions" hegemony - answer ✅✅(n.) the consistent dominance of one state or ideology over others cementum - answer ✅✅(n.) thin layer of bone-like material that surrounds a tooth revamp - answer ✅✅(v.) to patch up or renovate Ex. repair or restore; "They revamped their old house before selling it" take for granted - answer ✅✅(v.) 1. To consider as true, real, or forthcoming; anticipate correctly. We take it for granted that our children will be better off than we are.2. To underestimate the value of: a publisher who took the editors for granted. poignant - answer ✅✅(adj.) deeply affecting, touching; keen or sharp in taste or smell precursor - answer ✅✅(n.) someone or something that comes before another and announces or suggests what is to come drift - answer ✅✅(v.) an act or instance of being driven or carried along, as by a current of air or water or by circumstances mete out - answer ✅✅(v.) administer or bestow, as in small portions Ex. "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone" GMAT pinnipedia - answer ✅✅(n.) partially marine carnivores that feed in the sea and mate and sleep on land; seals, sea lions, walrus lactation - answer ✅✅(n.)the period following birth during which milk is secreted Ex. "lactation normally continues until weaning" secrete - answer ✅✅(v.) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids Ex. "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream", (v.) to put or keep in a hiding place; to conceal wean - answer ✅✅(v.) gradually deprive (infants) of mother's milk Ex. "she weaned her baby when he was 3 months old and started him on powdered milk" abstain - answer ✅✅(v.) To keep oneself back (from doing or using something). commence - answer ✅✅(v.) take the first step or steps in carrying out an action ; set in motion, cause to start ; get off the ground propensity - answer ✅✅(n) a natural inclination or predilection toward Ex. "the APTNESS of iron to rust"; "the PROPENSITY of disease to spread" "he has a PROCLIVITY for exaggeration" paleoclimatologists - answer ✅✅(n.) people who study climates of the geological past decipher - answer ✅✅(v.) to convert from a code or secret writing into ordinary language, to decode; to interpret the meaning of something puzzling, to solve sediment - answer ✅✅(n.) small solid particles of material from rocks or organisms which are moved by water or wind resulting in erosion and deposition GMAT extapolate - answer ✅✅(v.) to infer or estimate by extending known information precipitation - answer ✅✅(n.) the falling to earth of any form of water (rain or snow or hail or sleet or mist) (n.) an unexpected acceleration or hastening Ex. "he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise" elucidate - answer ✅✅(v.) make free from confusion or ambiguity Ex. make clear; "Could you CLARIFY these remarks?"; "CLEAR UP the question of who is at fault" graze - answer ✅✅(v.) to feed on growing grass; to touch lightly in passing accrue - answer ✅✅(v.) come into the possession of Ex. "The house accrued to the oldest son" (v.), (v.) to grow or accumulate over time; to happen as a natural result opulence - answer ✅✅(n.) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living terrestrial - answer ✅✅(v.) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants Ex. "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball" (v.) concerned with the world or worldly matters Ex. "MUNDANE affairs"; "he developed an immense terrestrial practicality" gradient - answer ✅✅(n.) the property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the horizontal Ex. "a five-degree gradient" arboreal - answer ✅✅(adj.) of or relating to or formed by trees Ex. "an arborous roof" (v.) , resembling a tree in form and branching structure Ex. "ARBORESCENT coral found off the coast of Bermuda"; "DENDRIFORM sponges" tine - answer ✅✅(n.) prong on a fork or pitchfork or antler GMAT mural - answer ✅✅(n.) a painting that is applied to a wall surface (v.) , of or relating to walls Ex. "mural painting" electorate - answer ✅✅(n.) the total group of qualified voters; all the electors of a city or country, etc incumbent - answer ✅✅(adj.) obligatory, required; (n.) one who holds a specific office at the time spoken of thalidomide - answer ✅✅(n.) a drug formerly used as a sedative but withdrawn in 1961 because it was found to cause malformation of the fetus if taken by the mother in early pregnancy sedative - answer ✅✅(adj.) tending to calm, moderate, or tranquilize; [medicine] any agent, especially a drug, that has a calming effect and is used to treat insomnia, pain, delirium, etc. barbiturate - answer ✅✅(n.) organic compound having powerful soporific effect; [medicine] a salt or ester of [barbituric acid], used as a source of sedative and hypnotic drugs, eg sleeping pills and anaesthetics, but now increasingly being replaced by safer and less addictive drugs. exert - answer ✅✅(v.) To put forth effort; ([exerted], [exerting]) to bring something into use or action forcefully. inhibit - answer ✅✅(v.) to put down by force or authority; to restrain or hold back; to hinder or arrest; to prohibit stumble - answer ✅✅(v) to make a mistake when you are speaking: Children often stumble when reading aloud; ; (v.) miss a step and fall or nearly fall; (n.) an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; (v.) 비틀거리다, 비틀거리며 걷다 [= trip, stagger, falter, totter, reel, shamble];(말을) 더듬다[= falter, stammer, stutter]; 실수하다