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Hesi Vocab
Term | Definition |
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Nimble | agile, quick and light in movement, active, lively, moving with ease, quick to understand/think |
Queries | questions or inquiries, seeking or requesting for truth, information, or knowledge |
Petulant | childishly irritable, impatient |
Volatile | explosive, unstable, tending or threatening to break out into open violence, changing, flighty |
Pedestrian | ordinary, dull; everyday; unexceptional |
Shrewd | showing clever resourcefulness in practical matters, artful, tricky or cunning, streetwise, knowledgeable |
Salient | important, worthy of note or relevant |
Stint | to be sparing, thrifty, limit, restrict |
Benevolent | well meaning and kindly, desiring to help others, intended for benefits rather than profit |
Trenchant | vigorous or incisive in expression or style |
Edify | to instruct or improve morally or intellectually; to build up or strengthen in relation to morals or religion |
Importune | to harass with persistent requests, to ask all the time |
Foment | to encourage or incite troublesome acts |
Habitual | behaving in a regular manner, as a habit, customary |
Tincture | an alcoholic drink with plant extracts used for medicine |
Monsoons | the rainy season accompanying the wet monsoon; a change of wind direction with season |
Nexus | connection or series of connections linking two or more things |
Plaintive | sorrowful, mournful or melancholic, sad |
Conjoin | to join together; to unite; to combine |
Geniality | warmth and kindness of disposition, friendly, pleasant |
Osculate | to kiss or related to kissing |
Goad | to encourage, stimulate or incite and provoke, a stick with a pointed or electrically charged end for driving cattle |
Virago | given to undue belligerence or ill manner at the slightest provocation; a shrew |
Termagant | a loud domineering woman, violent |
Succor | aid, assistance or relief given to one in distress, ministration |
Convection | heat transfer in a gas or liquid by the circulation of currents |
Prominent | important, famous, conspicious |
Conspicious | easily seen, attracting attention |
Astute | accurately assess situations or people to one's own advantage, clever |
Candid | straightforward, open and sincere |
Proscribe | banish, to prohibit, outlaw |
Specious | seemingly well-reasoned or factual, but actually fallacious or insincere; strongly held but false, logical |
Alacrity | eagerness; liveliness; enthusiasm, cheerful readiness |
Shroud | a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial |
Petty | of little importance; trivial |