Nursing entrance exam - Kaplan
Resignation most nearly means: Correct Answer: Acceptance
Tangible most nearly means: Correct Answer:
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Feasible most nearly means: Correct Answer: Workable
Impure means the opposite of: Correct Answer: Unalloyed
Scale mans the opposite of: Correct Answer: Descend
Levity means the opposite of: Correct Answer: Gravity
Optimistic: Hope:: Correct Answer: Sage:Wisdom
Agenda:Meeting:: Correct Answer: Program:Play
Forge:Signature:: Correct Answer: Counterfeit:Money
Choose the word that is misspelled:
Nuetral
Perceived
Efficient
Analysis Correct Answer: Nuetral = Neutral
Choose the word that is misspelled:
Acessible
Endure
Magnified
Comprehension Correct Answer: Accessible (two C's)
Choose the word that is misspelled:
Surreal
Obsolete
Negligance
Infused Correct Answer: Negligence (gence - not gance)
Resolute Correct Answer: Determined
Terse Correct Answer: Short, abrupt
Vanquish Correct Answer: To defeat, or conquer in battle
Cautious Correct Answer: Careful in actions or behaviors
Lethargic Correct Answer: Sluggish, inactive, apahtethic
Sullen Correct Answer: Depressed, gloomy
Legible Correct Answer: possibly to read or decipher
Fawn (v) Correct Answer: to show submission, act in a servile manner
Jeer (n) Correct Answer: Taunt, ridicule
Adrift Correct Answer: Wandering aimlessly, without direction
Query Correct Answer: A question
Impure Correct Answer: Lacking in purity, unclean
Disinterested Correct Answer: Impartial, unbiased
Pathetic Correct Answer: Sad, Pitiful
Clandestine Correct Answer: Secret
Rankle Correct Answer: To cause continuing anger or irritation, Irk
Genuine Correct Answer: Authentic
Magnanimous means the opposite of: Correct Answer: Greedy
Edifice:Building:: Correct Answer: Tome:Book
Quarrelsome:Argue Correct Answer: Vivacious:Energy
Coward:Bravery (lacks bravery) Correct Answer: Braggert:Modesty
Scissors:Cut Correct Answer: Pen:Write
Loud:Deafening Correct Answer: Apartment:Mansion (provides housing at a lesser degree)
Measles:Disease (measles is a type of disease) Correct Answer: Baseball:Sport (baseball is a type of sport)
Forest:Trees (a forest is made up of many trees) Correct Answer: Bouquet: Flowers (A bouquet is made up of many flowers)
Which word is misspelled? Correct Answer: The girl was upset when she asked to meet with the principal of the school. (it is principle of the school).
Grave Correct Answer: serious
Delegate most nearly means: Correct Answer: Assign
Favor most nearly means: Correct Answer: Prefer
Laurels Correct Answer: Honor
Acute means the opposite of:
(sudden, sharp pain) Correct Answer: Dull
Ghastly most nearly means: Correct Answer: Awful
Inorganic compounds Correct Answer: chemicals without carbon, sodium chloride, nitrogen and phospoorus
Organic compounds Correct Answer: chemicals that contain carbon, that support life, includes proteins, lipids, carbohydrates, and nucleic acids
Water bonds Correct Answer: Hydrogen bonding
Carbohydrates Correct Answer: main class of biological molecules, composed of carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, including sugars and starches
What do carbohydrates provide? Correct Answer: Short term energy for metabolism and glucose, structural support for cells and organisms, cellulose in cell wall of plants (most abundant molecule on earth)
Lipids (fats and oils) Correct Answer: Carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, less oxygen than carbohydrates, store more energy than carbohydrates - long term energy.
How do carbohydrates and lipids work together? Correct Answer: If you take in more carbohydrates than necessary, body stores them as fatty acids, they are re-synthesized as lipids called triglycerides and led to high cholesterol.
Proteins Correct Answer: provide cells with the ability to carry out functions: chemical messangers, transport substances movement, immune defense,
Enzymes Correct Answer: act as catalysts for all biochemical reactions, increase reaction rates by lowering activation energy
Nucleic acids Correct Answer: building blocks of DNA and RNA
Glycolysis Correct Answer: takes glucose, a sugar molecule with 6 carbon atoms and breaks it down to 2 pyruvate molecules, each with 3 carbon atoms to make NADH then make ATP through the electron transport chain.
Foolhardy Correct Answer: reckless
Truncate Correct Answer: Shorten
Seclude Correct Answer: Isolate
Acquit Correct Answer: Clear
Simulate Correct Answer: Replicate
Erroneous Correct Answer: Mistaken
Garbled Correct Answer: Jumbled
Synthetic Correct Answer: Artificial
Creep Correct Answer: move slowly
Leverage Correct Answer: Height
Viscous Correct Answer: Syrupy
Benefactor Correct Answer: Supporter
Prohibition Correct Answer: Ban
Hypocrite Correct Answer: Poser
Opulent Correct Answer: Luxurious
Interminable is the opposite of of: Correct Answer: brief
Traditional is the opposite of: Correct Answer: Iconoclastic
Iconoclastic Correct Answer: characterized by attack on established beliefs or institutions
Abandon (to desert or forsake) is the opposite of: Correct Answer: Restraint
Logy is the opposite of: Correct Answer: Alert
Logy means Correct Answer: drained, worn out, fatigued
Cede means: Correct Answer: to yield or surrender
Cede is the opposite of: Correct Answer: Retain
Proscribe means: Correct Answer: to prohibit or forbid
Proscribe is the opposite of: Correct Answer: Permit [Show Less]