HESI A2 Vocabulary and General Knowledge Practice
Exam Questions and Verified Answers 2025 Verified
1. Abrupt: sudden
2. Absorption: movement of nutrients from the digestive tube into the bloodstream
3. Abstain: to voluntarily refrain from something
4. Access: a means to obtain or gain entry or a means of approach
5. Accountable: responsible
6. Adhere: to hold fast or stick together
7. Adverse: undesired, possibly harmful
8. Affect: appearance of observable emotions
9. Aggregate: a sum total of many things
10. Ambiance: the atmosphere of an environment
11. Annual: occurring every year
12. Anterior: facing forward
13. Apply: to place, put on, or spread something
14. Audible: able to be heard
15. Bilateral: present on two sides
16. Cast: hard protective device applied to protect a broken bone while the bone heals
17. Cease: come to an end or bring to an end
18. Compensatory: offsetting or making up for something
19. Complication: an undesired problem that is the result of some other event
20. Comply: do as directed
21. Concave: rounded inward
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, 22. Concise: brief, to the point
23. Confines: limits or boundaries
24. Consistency: degree of viscosity, how thick or thin a fluid is
25. Constrict: to draw together or become smaller
26. Contingent: dependent
27. Contour: shape or outline of a shape
28. Contract: to draw together, to reduce in size
29. Contraindication: a reason why something is not advisable or why it should not be done
30. Defecate: expel feces
31. Diffusion: movement of materials from high concentration to lower concentra- tion
32. Digestion: the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food
33. Distal: further away from the point of attachment
34. Hygiene: measures contributing to cleanliness and good health
35. Hydration: maintenance of body fluid
36. Impaired: diminished or lacking some usual quality or level
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Exam Questions and Verified Answers 2025 Verified
1. Abrupt: sudden
2. Absorption: movement of nutrients from the digestive tube into the bloodstream
3. Abstain: to voluntarily refrain from something
4. Access: a means to obtain or gain entry or a means of approach
5. Accountable: responsible
6. Adhere: to hold fast or stick together
7. Adverse: undesired, possibly harmful
8. Affect: appearance of observable emotions
9. Aggregate: a sum total of many things
10. Ambiance: the atmosphere of an environment
11. Annual: occurring every year
12. Anterior: facing forward
13. Apply: to place, put on, or spread something
14. Audible: able to be heard
15. Bilateral: present on two sides
16. Cast: hard protective device applied to protect a broken bone while the bone heals
17. Cease: come to an end or bring to an end
18. Compensatory: offsetting or making up for something
19. Complication: an undesired problem that is the result of some other event
20. Comply: do as directed
21. Concave: rounded inward
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, 22. Concise: brief, to the point
23. Confines: limits or boundaries
24. Consistency: degree of viscosity, how thick or thin a fluid is
25. Constrict: to draw together or become smaller
26. Contingent: dependent
27. Contour: shape or outline of a shape
28. Contract: to draw together, to reduce in size
29. Contraindication: a reason why something is not advisable or why it should not be done
30. Defecate: expel feces
31. Diffusion: movement of materials from high concentration to lower concentra- tion
32. Digestion: the mechanical and chemical breakdown of food
33. Distal: further away from the point of attachment
34. Hygiene: measures contributing to cleanliness and good health
35. Hydration: maintenance of body fluid
36. Impaired: diminished or lacking some usual quality or level
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