Vocabulary Builder: Mastering English Vocabulary, Exams of Nursing

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Abandon - answer ✅✅Desert or leave someone/something Abate - answer ✅✅subside; moderate Abbreviation - answer ✅✅The shortened form of a word Abdicate - answer ✅✅To renounce someone's throne Aberrant - answer ✅✅abnormal or deviant Abhor - answer ✅✅hate Abhorrent - answer ✅✅inspiring disgust and loathing Abominable - answer ✅✅loathsome Abrasive - answer ✅✅rubbing away Abridge - answer ✅✅shorten Abrupt - answer ✅✅a sudden action Abstemious - answer ✅✅sparing in eating and drinking; temperate Abstruse - answer ✅✅obscure; profound; difficult to understand Abundant - answer ✅✅existing or available in large quantities Abyss - answer ✅✅a deep or seemingly bottomless chasm Acclaimed - answer ✅✅praise enthusiastically and publicly Accord - answer ✅✅an official agreement or treaty Acolyte - answer ✅✅assistant Acquiesce - answer ✅✅agree without protesting Acrid - answer ✅✅pungent/bitter Acrimonious - answer ✅✅bitter in words or manner Androgynous - answer ✅✅partly male and partly female in appearance Anecdote - answer ✅✅short account of an amusing or interesting event Animosity - answer ✅✅strong hostility Antebellum - answer ✅✅occurring or existing before a particular war Antecedent - answer ✅✅previous Antipathy - answer ✅✅Hatred Antiquated - answer ✅✅old-fashioned; obsolete Antithesis - answer ✅✅direct opposite of/to Anxious - answer ✅✅Worried or nervous Apartheid - answer ✅✅a policy or system of segregation or discrimination on grounds of race Apathy - answer ✅✅lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern Apiary - answer ✅✅a place where bees are kept Apocryphal - answer ✅✅untrue; made up; not genuine Apprehension - answer ✅✅Anxiety or fear that something bad will happen Approximate - answer ✅✅estimate or guess Arable - answer ✅✅fit for growing crops Arbitrary - answer ✅✅based on random choice or personal whim, rather than by any reason or system Arbitrary - answer ✅✅random Archaic - answer ✅✅antiquated Archipelago - answer ✅✅group of islands Ardor - answer ✅✅heat; passion; zeal Arid - answer ✅✅having little or no rain Arid - answer ✅✅having little or no rain or lacking in interest, excitement, or meaning Articulate - answer ✅✅having or showing the ability to speak fluently and coherently Artisan - answer ✅✅manually skilled worker; craftsman Ascendancy - answer ✅✅controlling influence Ascertain - answer ✅✅find something out for certain Ascetic - answer ✅✅practicing severe self-discipline; self-denial; austere Aspect - answer ✅✅a particular part or feature of something Aspiration - answer ✅✅hope or ambition Assail - answer ✅✅attack; plague; criticize Assuage - answer ✅✅ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger) Astute - answer ✅✅shrewd or sharp Atrophy - answer ✅✅waste away Audacious - answer ✅✅daring; bold Augment - answer ✅✅increase; add to Auspicious - answer ✅✅favourable Carnage - answer ✅✅bloody and extensive slaughter Cascade - answer ✅✅To fall heavily Cater - answer ✅✅To provide for Cautious - answer ✅✅Careful Censor - answer ✅✅to cut out unacceptable parts of something Censorious - answer ✅✅critical Censure - answer ✅✅condemnation; blame; criticize Certitude - answer ✅✅certainty Chagrin - answer ✅✅distress or embarrassment at having failed or been humiliated Charlatan - answer ✅✅pretender to knowledge Chasm - answer ✅✅a deep fissure in the earth, rock, or another surface Chasm - answer ✅✅a profound difference between people, viewpoints, feelings, etc. Chronic - answer ✅✅persistant; constant Chronicle - answer ✅✅a record Clemency - answer ✅✅mercy; lenience Coalesce - answer ✅✅merge or unite Coerce - answer ✅✅pressure Competent - answer ✅✅capable Conciliatory - answer ✅✅reconciling; appeasing; amiable Condone - answer ✅✅accept or allow something that is usually considered wrong or offensive Confer - answer ✅✅grant or bestow a title, degree, benefit, or right Conflagration - answer ✅✅great fire Congenital - answer ✅✅inborn Conscientious - answer ✅✅diligent; careful Consensus - answer ✅✅general agreement Contrite - answer ✅✅feeling or expressing remorse or penitence; affected by guilt Contrivance - answer ✅✅device; scheme Conundrum - answer ✅✅a confusing and difficult problem or question Converge - answer ✅✅approach; tend to meet; come together Conviction - answer ✅✅declaration of guilt Convoluted - answer ✅✅complex and difficult to follow Cordial - answer ✅✅warm and friendly Corpulent - answer ✅✅fat Corral - answer ✅✅enclosure Corroborate - answer ✅✅confirm; support Credulity - answer ✅✅belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naiveté Crude - answer ✅✅in the raw or natural state; simple; vulgar Despondent - answer ✅✅depressed; gloomy Despot - answer ✅✅tyrant Deterrent - answer ✅✅something that discourages; hindrance Detrimental - answer ✅✅harmful Devious - answer ✅✅roundabout; erratic; not straightforward Didactic - answer ✅✅teaching; instructional Diffuse - answer ✅✅wordy; rambling Discerning - answer ✅✅mentally quick and observant Discrepancy - answer ✅✅lack of consistency; difference Discursive - answer ✅✅digressing; rambling Disinclination - answer ✅✅unwillingness Disinterested - answer ✅✅unprejudiced Disparage - answer ✅✅belittle Disparate - answer ✅✅contrasting Disparity - answer ✅✅a great difference Dispassionate - answer ✅✅calm; impartial Dispel - answer ✅✅drive away; scatter; cause to vanish Disputatious - answer ✅✅argumentative Disseminate - answer ✅✅spread or disperse widely Dissent - answer ✅✅disagree Dissent - answer ✅✅disagree Dissident - answer ✅✅rebellious Dissipate - answer ✅✅disperse or scatter Dissociate - answer ✅✅disconnect or separate Dissuade - answer ✅✅discourage from Divergent - answer ✅✅differing; deviating Divulge - answer ✅✅to make something known or to reveal Docile - answer ✅✅ready to accept control or instruction; submissive Dogmatic - answer ✅✅opinionated Dubious - answer ✅✅Hesitating or doubting Duplicity - answer ✅✅deceitfulness Duration - answer ✅✅How long something will take Eager - answer ✅✅wanting to do something very much Ebb - answer ✅✅recede; lessen Eclectic - answer ✅✅wide-ranging Economize - answer ✅✅to save money Effervescent - answer ✅✅exuberant; bubbly and excited Egotist - answer ✅✅a person who is excessively conceited or self-absorbed Egress - answer ✅✅exit Elegant - answer ✅✅stylish Ethereal - answer ✅✅light or heavenly Eulogy - answer ✅✅accolade Euphemism - answer ✅✅a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too harsh or blunt when referring to something unpleasant or embarrassing Euphonious - answer ✅✅pleasing in sound Evanescent - answer ✅✅fleeting; vanishing Exacerbate - answer ✅✅worsen; embitter; aggravate Exacting - answer ✅✅extremely demanding Exonerate - answer ✅✅acquit; release Expedient - answer ✅✅convenient and practical, although possibly improper or immoral Expository - answer ✅✅explanatory Extant - answer ✅✅still in existence Extrapolate - answer ✅✅extend the application of something to an unknown situation by assuming that existing trends will continue or similar methods will be applicable Extricate - answer ✅✅free; disentangle Extrovert - answer ✅✅an outgoing, overtly expressive person Facet - answer ✅✅one side of something many- sided Facile - answer ✅✅easily accomplished; ready or fluent Fallacious - answer ✅✅false; misleading Fallacy - answer ✅✅misconception Fanciful - answer ✅✅overimaginative and unrealistic Feasible - answer ✅✅possible to do easily or conveniently; practical Feasible - answer ✅✅practical Feisty - answer ✅✅lively, spirited Fervor - answer ✅✅intensity of feeling Fiendish - answer ✅✅extremely cruel Flaccid - answer ✅✅soft and hanging loosely or limply, esp. so as to look or feel unpleasant Flagrant - answer ✅✅conspicuously wicked; blatant Flotsam - answer ✅✅wreckage of a ship Flourish - answer ✅✅To grow well or thrive Fluctuate - answer ✅✅An irregular rise and fall in a number or amount Foolhardy - answer ✅✅recklessly bold or rash Foreseen - answer ✅✅to predict Forestall - answer ✅✅prevent by taking action in advance Forge - answer ✅✅falsify Formulae - answer ✅✅a method, statement, or procedure for achieving something Forsake - answer ✅✅desert; abandon Fortuitous - answer ✅✅accidental; by chance Fortunate - answer ✅✅lucky Hedonist - answer ✅✅someone who believes that pleasure is the sole aim in life Hiatus - answer ✅✅gap Hierarchy - answer ✅✅a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority Historic - answer ✅✅famous or important in history Homely - answer ✅✅unattractive in appearance Hone - answer ✅✅sharpen Husband - answer ✅✅use sparingly; conserve; save Hyperbole - answer ✅✅exaggerated statements or claims not meant to be taken literally Hypothetical - answer ✅✅based on assumptions; supposed Iconoclast - answer ✅✅someone who attacks cherished traditions Idiosyncrasy - answer ✅✅an individual trait, usually odd in nature Ignoble - answer ✅✅dishonorable Ignominy - answer ✅✅deep disgrace; shame or dishonor Illict - answer ✅✅illegal Illusory - answer ✅✅deceptive; not real Illustrate - answer ✅✅Explain or to decorate Immaculate - answer ✅✅Very clean or spotless Immutable - answer ✅✅unchangeable Impasse - answer ✅✅a situation in which no progress is possible Impeccable - answer ✅✅flawless Impecunious - answer ✅✅without money Impediment - answer ✅✅obstacle; defect Imperious - answer ✅✅domineering; haughty Impervious - answer ✅✅incapable of being damaged or distressed Impetuous - answer ✅✅violent; rash; hasty Imply - answer ✅✅insinutate Impoverished - answer ✅✅to make something poor Impressionable - answer ✅✅easily influenced Imprudent - answer ✅✅unwise Impudence - answer ✅✅impertinence; insolence Impulsive - answer ✅✅acting or done without forethought Inadvertently - answer ✅✅carelessly or unintentionally Inalienable - answer ✅✅unable to be taken away from Inane - answer ✅✅silly, stupid Incendiary - answer ✅✅flammable; tending to stir up conflict Incense - answer ✅✅enrage Incessant - answer ✅✅ceaseless, constant Incident - answer ✅✅an event or occurrence Insatiable - answer ✅✅not easily satisfied; greedy Insightful - answer ✅✅perceptive; intuitive Insipid - answer ✅✅lacking flavour Insolvent - answer ✅✅bankrupt; unable to repay one's debt Insularity - answer ✅✅narrow-mindedness; isolation Insuperable - answer ✅✅impossible to overcome Insurgent - answer ✅✅rebellious Integral - answer ✅✅complete; necessary for completeness Integrate - answer ✅✅combine 2 things together Intermittent - answer ✅✅periodic; on and off Intractable - answer ✅✅hard to control or deal with Intransigent - answer ✅✅unwilling or refusing to change one's views or to agree about something Intrepid - answer ✅✅fearless Intricate - answer ✅✅very complicated or detailed Introspective - answer ✅✅looking within oneself Introvert - answer ✅✅a shy, reticent, and typically self-centered person Inundate - answer ✅✅to overwhelm someone, or a flood Invert - answer ✅✅turn upside down or inside out Irascible - answer ✅✅irritable; easily angered Irrational - answer ✅✅lacking reason; illogical Irrelevant - answer ✅✅unrelated Irreproachable - answer ✅✅blameless; impeccable Irresolute - answer ✅✅uncertain how to act; weak Jaunty - answer ✅✅cheerful Jingoist - answer ✅✅extremely patriotic Jocular - answer ✅✅said or done in jest; joking Judicious - answer ✅✅sound in judgement; wise Laconic - answer ✅✅brief and to the point Lament - answer ✅✅a passionate expression of grief or sorrow Lampoon - answer ✅✅satire Lassitude - answer ✅✅weariness Laudatory - answer ✅✅expressing praise and commendation Levity - answer ✅✅lack of seriousness Liberate - answer ✅✅To set something free Limber - answer ✅✅To warm up Linger - answer ✅✅wait around List - answer ✅✅tilt; lean over Listlessness - answer ✅✅lack of energy or spirit Lofty - answer ✅✅tall/high Loquacious - answer ✅✅someone who talks a lot Lucid - answer ✅✅easily understood Natal - answer ✅✅of or relating to the place or time of one's birth Nefarious - answer ✅✅very wicked Negate - answer ✅✅nullify; make ineffective Nimble - answer ✅✅quick and light in movement or action Noisome - answer ✅✅extremely bad smell Nuance - answer ✅✅a subtle difference in or shade of meaning, expression, or sound Obsequious - answer ✅✅servile Officious - answer ✅✅meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services Ominous - answer ✅✅threatening Omnipotent - answer ✅✅all-powerful Omniscient - answer ✅✅knowing everything Optimistic - answer ✅✅Hopeful Opulent - answer ✅✅luxurious Opulent - answer ✅✅Very rich, luxurious or lavish Ostentatious - answer ✅✅trying to impress or attract attention Overbearing - answer ✅✅dominating Overt - answer ✅✅done or shown openly Pacify - answer ✅✅to quell anger, agitation, or excitement Pact - answer ✅✅a formal agreement between individuals or parties Painstaking - answer ✅✅showing hard work; taking great care Palpable - answer ✅✅tangible Paltry - answer ✅✅small or meager Paltry - answer ✅✅small or meager Panegyric - answer ✅✅speech of high praise Paradigm - answer ✅✅a model, pattern or example Paradox - answer ✅✅something contradictory in nature Paragon - answer ✅✅model of perfection Parched - answer ✅✅dried out with heat Parity - answer ✅✅equality Parochial - answer ✅✅narrow in outlook; related to parishes Parry - answer ✅✅ward off a blow; defect Parsimonious - answer ✅✅unwilling to spend money Partisan - answer ✅✅one-sided; prejudiced Pathos - answer ✅✅a quality that evokes pity or sadness Paucity - answer ✅✅scarcity; lack Pedantic - answer ✅✅showing off learning; bookish Peninsula - answer ✅✅a piece of land almost surrounded by water Pensive - answer ✅✅dreamily thoughtful; contemplative Precarious - answer ✅✅uncertain; risky Precipice - answer ✅✅cliff face Precipitate - answer ✅✅rash; hasty Precipitous - answer ✅✅steep; sudden Preclude - answer ✅✅prevent from happening; make possible Precocious - answer ✅✅advanced in development Predecessor - answer ✅✅former occupant of a post Predilection - answer ✅✅preference Preface - answer ✅✅introduction Prescience - answer ✅✅foreknowledge Presumptuous - answer ✅✅overconfident Prevalent - answer ✅✅widespread in a particular area at a particular time Proclivity - answer ✅✅natural tendency Prodigal - answer ✅✅wasteful; generous; abundant in Profane - answer ✅✅violate; desecrate; treat unworthily Profligate - answer ✅✅wasted; wildly immoral Profusion - answer ✅✅overabundance; lavish expenditure Progeny - answer ✅✅children or offspring Proliferation - answer ✅✅rapid growth; spread Propitious - answer ✅✅favourable; fortunate Propriety - answer ✅✅fitness; correct conduct Prosaic - answer ✅✅dull and unimaginative; factual Protract - answer ✅✅prolong Provisional - answer ✅✅temporary Pungent - answer ✅✅having a sharply strong taste or smell Quagmire - answer ✅✅swamp Quandary - answer ✅✅a state of perplexity or uncertainty over what to do in a difficult situation Quarantine - answer ✅✅a state, period, or place of isolation in which people or animals that have arrived from elsewhere or been exposed to infectious or contagious disease are placed Querulous - answer ✅✅fretful; whining Quibble - answer ✅✅a slight objection or criticism Quiescent - answer ✅✅at rest; dormant; temporarily inactive Rambunctious - answer ✅✅boisterous Rancor - answer ✅✅bitterness; hatred Raucous - answer ✅✅harsh and shrill; disorderly and boisterous Ravenous - answer ✅✅extremely hungry Rebuttal - answer ✅✅a refutation or contradiction Recalcitrant - answer ✅✅Uncooperative Recant - answer ✅✅disclaim or disavow; openly confess error; retract a previous statement Resplendent - answer ✅✅dazzling; glorious; brilliant Reticent - answer ✅✅reserved; uncommunicative Robust - answer ✅✅Strong and healthy Rouse - answer ✅✅To stir up or excite someone Routine - answer ✅✅procedure Rudimentary - answer ✅✅not developed; elementary Rue - answer ✅✅regret Ruminate - answer ✅✅think deeply about something Ruse - answer ✅✅an action intended to deceive someone Rustic - answer ✅✅rural, countryside Ruthless - answer ✅✅merciless Sagacious - answer ✅✅perceptive; shrewd Sage - answer ✅✅person celebrated for wisdom Salvage - answer ✅✅rescue from loss at sea Satiate - answer ✅✅satisfy to the full Satire - answer ✅✅parody Satirical - answer ✅✅mocking Seclusion - answer ✅✅Isolation; solitude Sedentary - answer ✅✅requiring sitting Sequester - answer ✅✅isolate; retire from public life; seclude Serenity - answer ✅✅calmness; placidity Shrewd - answer ✅✅having or showing sharp powers of judgment Slovenly - answer ✅✅messy, dirty; careless Smite - answer ✅✅hit Solicit - answer ✅✅request earnestly; seek Somnambulist - answer ✅✅a sleepwalker Somnolent - answer ✅✅sleepy, drowsy or causing sleep Sovereign - answer ✅✅a supreme ruler, esp. a monarch Spurious - answer ✅✅not genuine; not authentic Stagnate - answer ✅✅cease to flow or move Static - answer ✅✅unchanging; lacking development Strident - answer ✅✅loud and harsh; insistant Stringent - answer ✅✅strict Subservient - answer ✅✅very obedient Substantiate - answer ✅✅establish by evidence; verify; support Substantiate - answer ✅✅prove something Subvert - answer ✅✅destabilize; corrupt Succinct - answer ✅✅concise Sullied - answer ✅✅damage the purity or integrity of something Supercilious - answer ✅✅arrogant Terse - answer ✅✅concise; abrupt; pithy Testify to - answer ✅✅give evidence as a witness in a law court Thrive - answer ✅✅grow or develop well or vigorously Thwart - answer ✅✅foil; stop Timid - answer ✅✅showing a lack of courage or confidence Tirade - answer ✅✅a long, angry speech of criticism or accusation Tiresome - answer ✅✅causing someone to feel bored or annoyed Torpor - answer ✅✅lethargy; sluggishness; dormancy Tractable - answer ✅✅docile; easily managed Transcendent - answer ✅✅surpassing; exceeding ordinary limits; superior Transgress - answer ✅✅misbehave Transient - answer ✅✅momentary; temporary; staying for a short time Traverse - answer ✅✅travel across or through; cross Travesty - answer ✅✅a grotesque, mocking or inferior imitation Trepidation - answer ✅✅fear Trifle - answer ✅✅to treat someone/something without respect or seriousness; talk or act frivolously Trite - answer ✅✅banal Trite - answer ✅✅overused and consequently of little import; lacking originality Ubiquitous - answer ✅✅found everywhere Undermine - answer ✅✅weaken; diminish Unfettered - answer ✅✅unrestrained Unprecedented - answer ✅✅never done or known before; unheard of; new Untimely - answer ✅✅badly-timed; premature Usurp - answer ✅✅seize someone's power or rank Utilitarian - answer ✅✅designed to be useful or practical rather than attractive Vacillate - answer ✅✅waver; flunctuate Vehement - answer ✅✅showing strong feeling Venerate - answer ✅✅revere; regard with great respect Ventilate - answer ✅✅cause air to enter an circulate a place Venture - answer ✅✅a risky or daring journey or undertaking Veracity - answer ✅✅truthfulness Verbose - answer ✅✅wordy Veto - answer ✅✅rejection Viable - answer ✅✅practical or workable Vigor - answer ✅✅active strength Vilified - answer ✅✅speak or write about in an abusively derogatory manner