Vocabulary Building: Exploring Diverse Lexical Concepts, Exams of Nursing

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SSAT Vocabulary (middle level)

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Applicant - answer ✅✅ a person applying for a job Sterilize - answer ✅✅ make free from bacteria; to clean Scour - answer ✅✅ Examine closely or, To wash by scrubbing vigorously Inject - answer ✅✅ A shot; put medicine into the body by a needle Virus - answer ✅✅ Germ that causes infection Code that corrupts or steals computer data Playwright - answer ✅✅ Author of a play Jury - answer ✅✅ a group of citizens chosen to hear evidence and decide if someone is guilty or innocent in court Candidate - answer ✅✅ Person running for office

Someone suitable for a job or something Stale - answer ✅✅ Not fresh, lacking originality, no spontaneity Rancid - answer ✅✅ having a bad taste or smell; spoiled Adamant - answer ✅✅ Stubborn, firm in purpose or opinion, unyielding, inflexible Blithe - answer ✅✅ free-spirited; carefree; inappropriately joyful; unconcerned Puck - answer ✅✅ 3" disc used in hockey Neutral - answer ✅✅ Not taking sides Anxious - answer ✅✅ worried; apprehensive Ebullient - answer ✅✅ Enthusiastic, very joyful Pesticide - answer ✅✅ a chemical used to kill insects, rodents, and other pests Spruce - answer ✅✅ Neat and trim in appearance (spruce up for your interview) Type of tree Fanciful - answer ✅✅ imaginary

Theory - answer ✅✅ Ideas that try to explain something Hypothesis that has been tested with data Refurbish - answer ✅✅ to make clean or bright again Revive - answer ✅✅ to bring back to life Cultivate - answer ✅✅ to nurture or grow Fertile - answer ✅✅ Able to produce good crops, farming Humid - answer ✅✅ Amount of moisture in the air Relevance - answer ✅✅ applicability the relation of something to the matter at hand Wilt - answer ✅✅ to become limp and drooping (as a flower), wither; to lose strength and vigor Debate - answer ✅✅ discuss the pros and cons of an issue discuss different opinions or views

Modify - answer ✅✅ to change Vary - answer ✅✅ change fluctuate vacillate - answer ✅✅ To sway physically; to be indecisive rectify - answer ✅✅ to correct verify - answer ✅✅ confirm productive - answer ✅✅ fruitful constructive ordinary - answer ✅✅ nondescript common predictable - answer ✅✅ expected verbose - answer ✅✅ Using too many words tacit - answer ✅✅ SILENTLY UNDERSTOOD; IMPLIED anticipate - answer ✅✅ expect

alleviate - answer ✅✅ Relieve To make more bearable disseminate - answer ✅✅ To scatter or spread widely elucidate - answer ✅✅ to clarify, explain muddle - answer ✅✅ to make a mess of slander - answer ✅✅ Vilify False and malicious use of spoken words libel - answer ✅✅ False and malicious use of printed words avenge - answer ✅✅ to seek revenge (The victims will take justice into their own hands and strive to avenge themselves against the men who robbed them.) provoke - answer ✅✅ To Anger, arouse, bring to action quibble - answer ✅✅ to argue over insignificant and irrelevant details satiate - answer ✅✅ satisfy or overindulge

supreme - answer ✅✅ Highest court in the land The highest, largest zenith - answer ✅✅ Highest point infallible - answer ✅✅ Incapable of error prevalent - answer ✅✅ widespread Commonly occurring; widely accepted or practiced vacant - answer ✅✅ Empty; unoccupied listless - answer ✅✅ lacking energy and enthusiasm utilize - answer ✅✅ to use harness vend - answer ✅✅ a seller of goods viewpoint - answer ✅✅ The way someone sees something vigorous - answer ✅✅ energetic; forceful vivid - answer ✅✅ Bright, distinct, and clear

wily - answer ✅✅ Sly, deceptive, shrewd, cunning, clever wrath - answer ✅✅ extreme anger zany - answer ✅✅ adj. Comical because of strangeness; clownish. fin - answer ✅✅ delicate skill; tact and cleverness; good judgment, decibel - answer ✅✅ measures loudness carpenter - answer ✅✅ woodworker who makes or repairs wooden objects thermometer - answer ✅✅ Measures temperature curator - answer ✅✅ person in charge of a library or museum. tidal wave - answer ✅✅ Tsunami a very large wave that destroys things, often caused by an earthquake quart - answer ✅✅ Unit of measure of a liquid metric - answer ✅✅ a system of measurement based on the number 10 platoon - answer ✅✅ unit of soldiers

boar - answer ✅✅ male pig flat piece of wood porpoise - answer ✅✅ sea animal that looks similar to a dolphin and breathes air destitute - answer ✅✅ Extremely poor misdirected - answer ✅✅ to lead in the wrong way speck - answer ✅✅ a tiny spot spontaneous - answer ✅✅ Unplanned (adj) arising naturally; not planned or engineered in advance steadfast - answer ✅✅ loyal; faithful firm, sure subside - answer ✅✅ to settle down, grow quiet subtle - answer ✅✅ Not obvious

superb - answer ✅✅ excellent superfluous - answer ✅✅ Unnecessary Excessive suppose - answer ✅✅ assume to think; assume to be true tact - answer ✅✅ sensitivity in dealing with others taper - answer ✅✅ Diminish; thin; narrow. taunt - answer ✅✅ to make fun of in an insulting way tenacious - answer ✅✅ Persistent Holding fast thrive - answer ✅✅ prosper; flourish thwart - answer ✅✅ To oppose successfully; to prevent, frustrate tiresome - answer ✅✅ boring, annoying

irksome toil - answer ✅✅ hard work ultimate - answer ✅✅ final making the highest point; cannot be improved unruly - answer ✅✅ difficult or impossible to control; disobedient uproot - answer ✅✅ pull up by the roots; remove; eradicate; annihilate refute - answer ✅✅ Disprove Prove to be false reject - answer ✅✅ Veto renounce reminisce - answer ✅✅ to recall the past fondly rendezvous - answer ✅✅ A meeting, usually secret replenish - answer ✅✅ to fill up again residual - answer ✅✅ Left over; remaining

restore - answer ✅✅ renovate to bring back to an original state resume - answer ✅✅ a summary of your academic and work history robust - answer ✅✅ Strong, healthy, done well rue - answer ✅✅ regret rustic - answer ✅✅ rural Having to do with the countryside; rural salvage - answer ✅✅ save from ruin, destruction, or harm satire - answer ✅✅ A literary work that criticizes human misconduct and ridicules vices, stupidities, and follies. savor - answer ✅✅ (v) appreciate fully, taste or smell with pleasure scant - answer ✅✅ Not enough or barely enough seldom - answer ✅✅ not often rarely sequence - answer ✅✅ the order in which things happen or should happen

sincere - answer ✅✅ truth Without deceit or pretense; genuine Candid sinister - answer ✅✅ evil, ominous paltry - answer ✅✅ insignificant Pitifully small or worthless parody - answer ✅✅ A piece that imitates and exaggerates the prominent features of another used for comic effect or ridicule. particle - answer ✅✅ fragment a very small piece of something persevere - answer ✅✅ persist continue steadily in spite of difficulties

pessimistic - answer ✅✅ a tendency to stress the negative or unfavorable. cynical petty - answer ✅✅ Small and insignificant trivial; unimportant; very small plausible - answer ✅✅ Believable (adj.) appearing true, reasonable, or fair plight - answer ✅✅ predicament difficult or adverse situation porous - answer ✅✅ full of holes permeable to liquids precise - answer ✅✅ exact Meticulous predicament - answer ✅✅ difficult situation

dilemma; difficult situation prediction - answer ✅✅ A statement of what will happen next in a sequence of events. prophecy prejudiced - answer ✅✅ biased discriminating against presume - answer ✅✅ to take for granted assume primary - answer ✅✅ Most important pristine - answer ✅✅ fresh and clean; uncorrupted prominent - answer ✅✅ salient important

prone - answer ✅✅ vulnerable to likely to occur prototype - answer ✅✅ First model a mental image or best example of a category reckless - answer ✅✅ careless Foolhardy restrict - answer ✅✅ To limit. reimburse - answer ✅✅ to pay back lucrative - answer ✅✅ bringing in money; profitable lure - answer ✅✅ To tempt or attract with the promise of something good meander - answer ✅✅ to wander aimlessly meddle - answer ✅✅ interfere

to involve oneself in other people's affairs without being asked menace - answer ✅✅ a threat or the act of threatening merge - answer ✅✅ to blend together mimic - answer ✅✅ (n.) a person who does imitations; (v.) to imitate; to make fun of mirage - answer ✅✅ (n.) something illusory, without substance, or without a basis in reality; an illusion misery - answer ✅✅ moral - answer ✅✅ ethical A practical lesson about right and wrong conduct often stated at the conclusion of an instructive story such as a fable. muddled - answer ✅✅ Mixed up; confused mystify - answer ✅✅ To confuse or puzzle someone myth - answer ✅✅ A widely held but false belief or idea. A traditional story about gods, ancestors, or heroes, told to explain the natural world or the customs and beliefs of a society.

a traditional story, especially one concerning the early history of a people or explaining some natural or social phenomenon, and typically involving supernatural beings or events. nag - answer ✅✅ bother neglect - answer ✅✅ fail to care for properly noncommittal - answer ✅✅ not decisive or definite nostalgic - answer ✅✅ Longing for things from the past homesick notorious - answer ✅✅ Famous for something bad noxious - answer ✅✅ harmful; poisonous; lethal novel - answer ✅✅ New, fresh, original A long work of fiction

obscure - answer ✅✅ Unclear Difficult to see, vague obstacle - answer ✅✅ barrier impediment obstinate - answer ✅✅ stubborn; unyielding overbearing - answer ✅✅ domineering; controlling overt - answer ✅✅ Obvious, easily observed pacify - answer ✅✅ To calm down; placate, appease pact - answer ✅✅ an agreement, treaty homely - answer ✅✅ unattractive, plain looking idealism - answer ✅✅ pursuit of noble goals immaculate - answer ✅✅ perfectly clean

imply - answer ✅✅ suggest, to express indirectly incidental - answer ✅✅ occurring as a minor consequence of something more important incision - answer ✅✅ surgical cut or wound produced by a sharp instrument incisive - answer ✅✅ Sharp, clear,cutting right to the heart of the matter indifferent - answer ✅✅ Having no preference, Not caring, having no interest; unbiased, impartial indignant - answer ✅✅ Angry, Angered at something unjust or wrong infiltrate - answer ✅✅ pass into or through; penetrate (an organization) sneak in ingenuity - answer ✅✅ Cleverness, inventiveness, resourcefulness inhabit - answer ✅✅ live, occupy, riside, dwell, stay innovate - answer ✅✅ create; introduce something new inquiry - answer ✅✅ question; investigation insight - answer ✅✅ intuitiveness, awareness, observation, understanding, wisdom

insolent - answer ✅✅ Boldly rude or disrespectful integrate - answer ✅✅ to combine integrity - answer ✅✅ Honesty, high moral standards inundate - answer ✅✅ to overwhelm; to cover with water jest - answer ✅✅ to joke to be playful in speech and actions justify - answer ✅✅ show or prove to be right or reasonable kinetic - answer ✅✅ Energy of motion legend - answer ✅✅ 1. key to map; 2. myth or story legitimate - answer ✅✅ legal, According to law, lawful rightful; reasonable, justifiable liberate - answer ✅✅ set free (v.) to free from bondage or domination; to release limber - answer ✅✅ flexible (adj.) - bending or flexing readily, pliable

integer - answer ✅✅ All whole numbers (both positive and negative) and zero. assistance - answer ✅✅ help, aid or support reality - answer ✅✅ state of affairs; actuality truth, existence diminution - answer ✅✅ lessening; reduction in size;decrease contended - answer ✅✅ argued bound - answer ✅✅ tied Headed for contained - answer ✅✅ have or hold control or restrain revere - answer ✅✅ To honor, to regard with respect; worship diligent - answer ✅✅ hard-working; careful detrimental - answer ✅✅ harmful; damaging disclose - answer ✅✅ to reveal

to make known disclose congeal - answer ✅✅ to change from liquid to solid inundate - answer ✅✅ to overwhelm; to fill beyond capacity steadfast - answer ✅✅ loyal (adj.) firmly fixed; constant, not moving or changing gratified - answer ✅✅ To make someone happy or satisfied grievances - answer ✅✅ A complaint or resentment. (Against something or someone) gullible - answer ✅✅ Easily fooled Easily deceived haphazard - answer ✅✅ (adj.) by chance; not planned; lacking order hardship - answer ✅✅ something that is hard to bear; difficulty something that causes suffering hazards - answer ✅✅ danger or risk hoard - answer ✅✅ hide, store, accumulate

glint - answer ✅✅ A tiny, quick flash of light exalt - answer ✅✅ to glorify, to praise, to raise in rank excavate - answer ✅✅ to dig out of the ground and remove excel - answer ✅✅ to do well; to be better or greater than others exemplify - answer ✅✅ to serve as a good example illustrate exile - answer ✅✅ to force someone to live in another country Banish exquisite - answer ✅✅ characterized by intricate and beautiful design or execution beautifully made extravagant - answer ✅✅ over the top excessive spending, costing, or using more than is required falter - answer ✅✅ hesitate; delay; stumble

fathom - answer ✅✅ to understand, comprehend feeble - answer ✅✅ weak Lacking strength feisty - answer ✅✅ lively, spirited flaccid - answer ✅✅ flabby, relaxed, or defective or absent muscle tone flatter - answer ✅✅ to praise excessively or dishonestly flourish - answer ✅✅ To thrive, to grow well foolhardy - answer ✅✅ Unwisely bold or daring. frank - answer ✅✅ honest Straightforward; open and sincere in expression glean - answer ✅✅ to gather bit by bit disavow - answer ✅✅ to deny responsibility for or connection with disown, disclaim, repudiate

domestic - answer ✅✅ related to home or place of birth relating to issues within a country dominate - answer ✅✅ to control or influence something or someone; to rule over, govern, or control dormant - answer ✅✅ inactive, sleeping drastic - answer ✅✅ extreme and sudden drenched - answer ✅✅ wet thoroughly; soak. dubious - answer ✅✅ doubtful, questionable, suspect duration - answer ✅✅ length of time something lasts economize - answer ✅✅ reduce expenses; be frugal; To spend sparingly egotist - answer ✅✅ a vain, conceited person, talks about accomplishments elongate - answer ✅✅ To make longer, to extend or make longer