HESI A2: Vocabulary & General Knowledge (Quiz 5) Welcome to your HESI A2 Practice Quizzes. Note: We designed Five (5) sets of practice quizzes for this Domain. Each set has 30 questions. Domain 8 (quiz 5): Vocabulary & General Knowledge. (30 questions) Please click NEXT to start your Free HESI Practice Quizzes right away. Best of Luck! 1. What word has a similar meaning to “cheap; tasteless”? Pensive Obsolescent Tawdry Gullible None 2. What is the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence? Just ahead of the Fourth of July holiday, the police remind citizens it’s illegal to pop or possess fireworks. To force someone to go somewhere with you, often using threats or violence To have or own something, or to have a particular quality To take things or people to or from a place secretly and often illegally To buy something None 3. What is the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence? The furnishings, all bright colors and animal print, were tawdry and horrendous. Very beautiful and delicate Made of wood Something that looks bright and attractive but is in fact cheap and of low quality. Someone or something that makes you feel slightly frightened or worried about your ability to achieve something None 4. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The patient decided to forgo the invasive procedure. decline accept delay research None 5. What is another word for “empty”? raucous void restricted ethereal None 6. Fill the blank with the correct word. Instagram filters, a form of digital plastic surgery, can be ________ to self-esteem. Complimentary Daunting Injurious Rambunctious None 7. Fill the blank with the correct word. The _________ city, which had less than 100,000 inhabitants ten years ago, is now home to almost half a million people. Quantitative Polished Sparse Burgeoning None 8. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The patient temporarily lost their equilibrium as a side effect of the otic surgery. eligibility balance energy hearing None 9. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. Identical twins come from a single fertilized zygote that splits into two separate individuals. an unborn offspring of a vertebrate animal that is still in the uterus or egg the cell that forms by the union of an egg cell and a sperm cell an extremely young child or animal an animal in the earliest stages of its development in the uterus or the egg None 10. What word has a similar meaning to “shameful; objectionable”? Homeopathic Staggered Irreproachable Reprehensible None 11. What is the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence? Female crabs prefer males that perform faster dances as part of their mating ritual. Something that serves as tangible proof or evidence The process of creating an exact copy of a plant or animal by using its cells A set of fixed actions and sometimes words performed regularly, especially as part of a ceremony The act of judging or deciding the amount, value, quality, or importance of something None 12. What is the meaning of “inferior”? Of little or less importance, value, or merit Positioned at or towards the front Positioned at or towards the back Better than average or better than other people or things of the same type None 13. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The study conducted last summer wasn′t able to accept or refute the hypothesis. an educated guess or theory something that gives proof or leads to a conclusion the underlying reason why something happened connection or interdependence between two or more things None 14. What word meaning “lesser; secondary” fits best in the following sentence? Holistically speaking, bottle-feeding is _________ to breastfeeding. Inferior Superior Benign Analogous None 15. What is the meaning of the underlined word in the following sentence? His reprehensible actions have cost him one too many friendships. Based on or using good judgment, and therefore fair and practical Intended to seduce someone Deserving of blame or scolding Very beautiful and very good None 16. What is another word for “maintenance of body fluid balance?” hydration equilibrium aegis etiology None 17. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The patient suffered a virulent attack of smallpox when he was only four years old. unusual or exceptional based on stories and retellings moderate or pleasant extremely harmful or severe None 18. What is another word for “verbal?” otic renal oral audible None 19. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The impending court ruling will have serious effects on healthcare. ominous inauspicious important occurring in the near future None 20. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The patient appeared flushed. pale pigmented ruddy exhausted None 21. Select the word that means “diminished”. The nursing care regiment for impaired skin integrity calls for the assessment of high-risk areas like bony prominences, skin staging, and proper hydration. regiment prominence impaired integrity None 22. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. A lack of proper oral hygiene was what caused the man’s gingivitis. maintenance of body fluid balance medication measures contributing to cleanliness and good health nourishment None 23. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. That patient in room 246 is exasperating all of the nurses: he keeps yelling at them that they don′t know how to do their job properly. to give up hope to appeal to someone's sense of humor to give someone approval to make worse or frustrate None 24. Select the word that means “to put into action”. The nursing staff wants to implement a strict diet regiment for the patient comprised entirely of clear fluids supplemented with essential vitamins and electrolytes. comprised implement supplemented regiment None 25. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The incidence of new HIV infections has dropped in the past decade due to increased awareness of how to mitigate the transmission of the disease. symptoms virulence ubiquity occurrence None 26. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. The doctor gave her rationale as to why the patient should assent to the surgery. prognosis underlying reason plea instructions None 27. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. My great-grandmother, who was a nurse too, worked at a hospital for indigent patients. poor, needy likely to end in death exhibiting financial success unprotected None 28. What is another word for “enhance”? imply improve scrutinize predispose None 29. Select the meaning of the underlined word in the sentence. A lot of people don′t know you can′t fight a virus with antibiotics. a very common, mild viral infection of the nose and throat inflammation of the vermiform appendix any of a group of tiny infectious agents composed mainly or entirely of protein microscopic infectious agent capable of replicating only in living cells, usually causing infectious disease None 30. What word meaning “concise” fits best in the sentence? The nurse put it in a _______ way: if James didn′t stop smoking he would never recover. precocious susceptible artificial terse None 1 out of 30 Time is Up! Time's up
