HESI Vocabulary – Entrance Exam
Practice with Answers
Abstain - ✔✔To voluntarily refrain from something.
Accountable - ✔✔To be responsible.
Acute - ✔✔Suden, intense.
Adhere - ✔✔To hold fast or stick together.
Aegis - ✔✔Control, protection.
Ambivalent - ✔✔Uncertain, having contradictory feelings.
Apply - ✔✔To place, put on, or spread something.
Assent - ✔✔To give consent, to agree.
Audible - ✔✔Able to be heard.
Bacteria - ✔✔Single-celled, microscopic organisms.
Bilateral - ✔✔Present on two sides.
Cardiac - ✔✔Of or relating to the heart.
, Cavity - ✔✔An opening or an empty area.
Cease - ✔✔Come to an end or bring to an end.
Chronology - ✔✔Order of events as they occurred; timeline.
Compensatory - ✔✔Offsetting or making up for something.
Concave - ✔✔Rounded inward.
Concise - ✔✔Brief, to the point
Consistency - ✔✔Degree of viscosity; how thick or thin a fluid is in relation to how it flows.
Constrict - ✔✔To draw together or become smaller.
Contingent - ✔✔Dependent.
Contraindication - ✔✔A reason something is not advisable or should not be done.
Convulsive - ✔✔Having or causing convulsions, i.e., violent shaking of the body.
Cursory - ✔✔Quick, perfunctory, not thorough.
Defecate - ✔✔Expel feces.
Practice with Answers
Abstain - ✔✔To voluntarily refrain from something.
Accountable - ✔✔To be responsible.
Acute - ✔✔Suden, intense.
Adhere - ✔✔To hold fast or stick together.
Aegis - ✔✔Control, protection.
Ambivalent - ✔✔Uncertain, having contradictory feelings.
Apply - ✔✔To place, put on, or spread something.
Assent - ✔✔To give consent, to agree.
Audible - ✔✔Able to be heard.
Bacteria - ✔✔Single-celled, microscopic organisms.
Bilateral - ✔✔Present on two sides.
Cardiac - ✔✔Of or relating to the heart.
, Cavity - ✔✔An opening or an empty area.
Cease - ✔✔Come to an end or bring to an end.
Chronology - ✔✔Order of events as they occurred; timeline.
Compensatory - ✔✔Offsetting or making up for something.
Concave - ✔✔Rounded inward.
Concise - ✔✔Brief, to the point
Consistency - ✔✔Degree of viscosity; how thick or thin a fluid is in relation to how it flows.
Constrict - ✔✔To draw together or become smaller.
Contingent - ✔✔Dependent.
Contraindication - ✔✔A reason something is not advisable or should not be done.
Convulsive - ✔✔Having or causing convulsions, i.e., violent shaking of the body.
Cursory - ✔✔Quick, perfunctory, not thorough.
Defecate - ✔✔Expel feces.
