HESI A2 Vocabulary Test Guide Exam Questions and Answers 2025
1. Affect: appearance of observable emotions
2. Aggregate: a sum total of many things
3. Contingent: dependent
4. Contraindication: a reason why something is not advisable or why it should not be done
5. Distended: enlarged or expanded from pressure
6. Deficit: a deficiency or lack of something
7. Insidious: so gradual as to not become apparent for a long time
8. Labile: changing rapidly and often
9. Latent: present, but not active or visible
10. Manifestation: an indication or sign of a condition
11. Milieu: the environmental condition, or setting
12. Occluded: closed or obstructed
13. Ominous: significantly important and dangerous
14. Overt: obvious, easily observed
15. Paroxysmal: beginning suddenly or abruptly
16. Patent: open
17. Precipitous: rapid, uncontrolled
18. Predispose: to make more susceptible or more likely to occur
19. Prognosis: the anticipated or expected course or outcome
20. Rampant: unrestrained
21. Retain: to hold or keep
22. Untoward: adverse, negative or unseemly
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1. Affect: appearance of observable emotions
2. Aggregate: a sum total of many things
3. Contingent: dependent
4. Contraindication: a reason why something is not advisable or why it should not be done
5. Distended: enlarged or expanded from pressure
6. Deficit: a deficiency or lack of something
7. Insidious: so gradual as to not become apparent for a long time
8. Labile: changing rapidly and often
9. Latent: present, but not active or visible
10. Manifestation: an indication or sign of a condition
11. Milieu: the environmental condition, or setting
12. Occluded: closed or obstructed
13. Ominous: significantly important and dangerous
14. Overt: obvious, easily observed
15. Paroxysmal: beginning suddenly or abruptly
16. Patent: open
17. Precipitous: rapid, uncontrolled
18. Predispose: to make more susceptible or more likely to occur
19. Prognosis: the anticipated or expected course or outcome
20. Rampant: unrestrained
21. Retain: to hold or keep
22. Untoward: adverse, negative or unseemly
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