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Vascular

  • Definition: Pertaining to, composed of, or provided with vessels or ducts that convey fluids, such as blood, lymph, or sap.

  • Contextual Example: Among Black people who died of Alzheimer's, their dementia was more likely to result from multiple causes, such as vascular disease.

  • Medications: Vasodilators are medications that open or dilate blood vessels.

  • Clinical Example: The doctor administered a vasodilator to ease blood flow.

Vocabulary Words

Venerable

  • Definition: Calling forth respect through age, character, and attainments.

  • Example Sentence: The venerable old man was a cherished source of advice and wisdom for the villagers.

Veracity

  • Definition: Conformity to facts; accuracy.

  • Example Sentence: Claudia wasn't sure of the veracity of the source and decided to keep on researching.

Verbal

  • Definition: Spoken rather than written.

  • Example Sentence: We gave only verbal instructions.

Additional Vocabulary

  • Tractable: (adj.) Easily managed or controlled.

    • Example: The problem turned out to be more tractable than we had imagined, requiring just a new copy of our datasets.

  • Vertigo: (noun) A sensation of whirling and loss of balance.

    • Example: My mother, who suffers from vertigo, sometimes has to spend the day lying on her bed to reduce the spinning feeling.

  • Vicarious: (adj.) Performed, exercised, received, or suffered in place of another.

    • Example: A lot of people have said there's a kind of vicarious pleasure in reading our book or whatever.

  • Virtuoso: (noun) A person highly skilled in music or another artistic pursuit.

    • Example: The soloist, a celebrated violin virtuoso, filled the theater with emotion.

  • Virulent: (adj.) Marked by a rapid, severe, and destructive course.

    • Example: The virulent look on her face warned me that she was about to say something unkind.

  • Virus: (noun) Any of the various infectious agents, usually ultramicroscopic, that consist of nucleic acid, either RNA or DNA, within a case of protein.

    • Example: The virus is transmitted to humans by mosquito bites.

  • Viscosity: (noun) The property of resistance to flow in any material with fluid properties with a sticky or glutinous consistency.

    • Example: The chemistry class conducted an experiment to determine the viscosity of motor oil.

  • Vital: (adj.) Necessary or essential to life; being a source or support of life.

    • Example: The sciences are a vital part of the school curriculum.

  • Void: (adj.) Containing nothing.

    • Example: It was cold, sandy, and completely void of any other signs of life for miles.

  • Voluble: (adj.) Someone who speaks easily and says a lot of words.

    • Example: Someone as voluble as your assistant definitely can manage to entertain our clients for a few minutes.

  • Volume: (noun) The amount of space, measured in cubic units, that an object or substance occupies or the degree of loudness or intensity of a sound.

    • Example: In science, we had to find the volume of the cube.

  • Wary: (adj.) Watchful; being on one's guard against danger.

    • Example: The smile instantly faded and a wary expression took its place.

  • Wound: (noun) A damaged area of the body, such as a cut or hole in the skin or flesh.

    • Example: The medical team thought he would die from the multiple stab wounds in his neck and torso.

Further Vocabulary with Definitions and Examples

Tractable

  • Definition: Someone or something that is easily dealt with, controlled, or persuaded.

  • Example Sentence: The problem with the database turned out to be more tractable than we had imagined: we just needed to make a new copy of our data sets.

Transdermal

  • Definition: Being, or supplying a medication in a form for absorption through the skin into the bloodstream.

  • Example Sentence: Contact sensitization was reported in a few patients using transdermal nicotine in clinical trials.

Transient

  • Definition: Not lasting, enduring, or permanent.

  • Example Sentence: There is a transient population of thousands of visitors during the year.

Trauma

  • Definition: A condition characterized by body wounds or shock resulting from sudden physical injury, such as violence or an accident.

  • Example Sentence: The soccer player reported repeated trauma to his knee during the season.

Triage

  • Definition: The sorting of and allocation of treatment to patients, especially battle and disaster victims, according to a system of priorities designed to maximize the number of survivors.

  • Example Sentence: The Red Cross didn't stop with immediate triage of disaster victims.

Trite

  • Definition: Not evoking interest because of overuse or repetition.

  • Example Sentence: It might seem trite to say that in times of despair, we can look to the written word for solace.

Tyrannical

  • Definition: Exercising power in a cruel or arbitrary way.

  • Example Sentence: Tyrannical regimes brutally oppress their people.

Ubiquitous

  • Definition: Something that seems to be present at the same time, everywhere.

  • Example Sentence: One couldn't escape the ubiquitous Christmas carol, which was playing even on the local country radio station.

Untoward

  • Definition: Unfavorable or unfortunate.

  • Example Sentence: These stories often hint at something untoward lurking beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean.

Urinating

  • Definition: To pass or discharge urine.

  • Example Sentence: While sleeping with her 3-year-old son, she was woken up by the sound of him urinating in a closet.

Vacuous

  • Definition: Someone or something that doesn't express or show intelligent thought or purpose.

  • Example Sentence: The author's female characters come across as vacuous and purposeless compared to his intelligent male characters.

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