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Hesi Vocab
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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