HESI vocabulary and Grammer

• Read the following sentence, and select the meaning of the italicized word.

  When a patient's circulation is occluded, he could experience numbness.

  Obstructed
• what does projected mean?

  planned
• To be euphoric is to be 

  confident
• The plastic surgery improved the _______ of her face.Choose the option that best completes the above sentence.

  cataract

  bearing

  contour

  serenity

  contour
• Select the meaning of the italicized word in the sentence below.Strokes and aneurysms are neurovascular disorders.

  Heart and lungs

  Heart and blood vessels

  Nervous system and heart

  Nervous system and blood vessels

  Nervous system and blood vessels
• Select the meaning of the italicized word in the sentence below.The overt symptoms included fever, nausea, and vomiting.

  Terrible

  Subtle

  Important

  Obvious

  Obvious
• Read the following sentence, and select the meaning of the italicized word.

  Depression is an untoward effect of the new antipsychotic drug.

  Adverse

  Uncontrolled

  More susceptible

  Already present

  Adverse
• To be mercurial is to be _______.

  changeable
• Select the meaning of the italicized word in the sentence below.

  The physical therapist informed the patient that the use of his arm was contingent upon stretching the arm's muscles on a daily basis.

  Reliant

  Urgent

  Independent

  Impartial

  Reliant
• Fatherless best defines the use of the word

  posthumous
• To be precipitous is to be _______.

  humble

  arrogant

  gentle

  steep

  steep
• Using the given options, select the meaning of the word in quotations. The nurse noted that the patient had "halitosis" and asked the physician to check the patient's teeth.

  Drooling

  Bad breath

  Yellowed teeth

  Chapped lips

  Bad breath
• An anodyne medication is the same as a

  pain medication
• Read the following sentence, and select the meaning of the italicized word.

  The patient's viral infection was in a latent stage.

  Convulsive

  Present but inactive

  Likely to occur

  Easily observed

  Present but inactive
• The term "insidious" means

  gradual
• Which of the following options best defines the word quandary?

  Dilemma

  Excellence

  Magnitude

  Competence

  Dilemma
• A group of two or more words that acts as a single part of speech in a sentence and lacks a subject and a predicate.

  phrase
• what part of speech cannot be advertised as an adverb?

  noun
• Choose the option that correctly identifies the adjective in the sentence below.

  Alaskan winters can be extremely cold.

  Alaskan

  winters

  extremely

  can

  Alaskan
• Read the following sentence, and select the meaning of the italicized word.

  Insulin is endogenous and helps regulate blood sugar levels.

  Produced within the body

  Produced outside the body

  Located within the body

  Located outside the body

  Produced within the body
• The policeman was performing a(n) _______ patrol around the neighborhood, as he was in uniform.Choose the option that best completes the above sentence.

  covert

  raucous

  overt

  callous

  overt
• To be gravid is to be _______.

  pregnant
• Read the following sentence, and select the meaning of the italicized word.

  The events of 9/11 led to precipitous emergency care for hundreds of victims.

  Dependent

  Rapid

  Dangerous

  Separate

  Rapid
• Read the following sentence, and select the meaning of the italicized word.

  Spirone has been used as a spray inhalation in paroxysmal asthma.

  Uncontrolled

  Continuous

  Dangerous

  Sudden attack

  Sudden attack