Top Vocabulary Quizzes & Trivia

Do you have a vast knowledge of the common lexicon, such that you can expound eloquently on any and all topics? If you’ve got an extensive vocabulary, jump on in to our vocabulary quizzes. It’s kind of like the vocabulary tests you did in grade school, but a lot more challenging.

Prepping for a big college test? This might be the place to have a little fun refreshing your vocabulary skills. Can you define “abstemious”? Can you use “vicissitude” in a sentence? What is “truculence”? Do you know what an “excrescence” is? What does it mean when one is “quiescent”? Do you “repine”? If I described your home as “littoral”, what would I mean? If I’ve done something in a “jocose” way, was I serious? If two things are “immiscible”, what are they? Brush up your word power and try your skills at our vocabulary quizzes. Go ahead, be grandiloquent!

Vocabulary Questions and Answers

Which of the following stars is best described as tawdry?

Dita Von Teese

Meryl Streep

Bill Gates

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Which of these words best provides a description of what is happening in the picture?

Verbosity

Erroneously

Jocularity

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What does enigma mean?

A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.

A person who is full of energy and joy

A person who possesses exotic beauty

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What does HPI stand for?

Helping Patients Improve

History of Present Illness

Healthy People Inside

Happy Providers Included

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What is the Context element for the HPI?

The doctor's interview of the patient

The onset of the patient's symptoms

The patient's personal medical history

The circumstances surrounding the onset of the chief complaint.

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What are associated symptoms?

Symptoms that are directly related to the chief complaint.

Anything that makes the chief complaint better or worse (i.e. pain is worse with walking)

The description of the chief complaint (i.e. sharp, burning, shooting, stabbing)

Where you would document the patient's personal medical, surgical, family, and social history (previous conditions, etc.)

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What is the word for excessive or profuse sweating?

Dyspnea

Palpitations

Diaphoresis

Orthopnea

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Check all of the options below that would belong in the Cardiovascular ROS

Palpitations

Diaphoresis

Chest Pain

Headache

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Which of the following would belong in the Psychiatric ROS?

Depression

Chest Pain

Malaise

Hemiplegia

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What does cachectic mean?

Fatigued

Wasting away

Anxious-appearing

Disoriented

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What does afebrile mean?

Fatigued

Disoriented

With a fever

Without a fever

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In what system would you chart febrile for the PE?

Psychiatric

Constitutional

Respiratory

Neurological

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