Multiple Choice Name: ______________

Mar. 25, 2020

Instruction: Select the most appropriate word for a given definition.

1. of great severity or intensity.

A. acute
B. likewise
C. susceptible
D. hypertension

2. tending to a certain behavior or illness for a long time or continually.

A. intervention
B. insufficient
C. preexist
D. chronic

3. to make feeble; weaken.

A. pneumonia
B. debilitate
C. insufficient
D. scarlet fever

4. inflammation of the thin membrane lining the inside of the heart.

A. likewise
B. intervention
C. endocarditis
D. scarlet fever

5. causing or having the potential to cause death.

A. osteoporosis
B. fatal
C. scarlet fever
D. intervention

6. abnormally high blood pressure, especially the diastolic pressure, or the arterial disease
characterized by it.

A. preexist
B. hypertension
C. likewise
D. vital

7. inadequate in number, degree, amount, or quality.

A. pneumonia
B. likewise
C. susceptible

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D. insufficient

8. the act of coming between two parties so as to change or stop what is happening.

A. pneumonia
B. fatal
C. intervention
D. susceptible

9. as well; also.

A. susceptible
B. acute
C. hypertension
D. likewise

10. a condition of the bone characterized by porosity and brittleness, accompanied by pain,
skeletal deformities, or decreased height, and occurring especially in women past menopause.

A. acute
B. chronic
C. debilitate
D. osteoporosis

11. a serious disease caused by viruses, bacteria, or fluid in the lungs, and characterized by
inflammation of one or both lungs.

A. endocarditis
B. pneumonia
C. scarlet fever
D. preexist

12. to exist before.

A. preexist
B. osteoporosis
C. acute
D. pneumonia

13. an acute contagious disease especially affecting children, caused by streptococci and
characterized by sore throat, fever, and a reddish rash.

A. hypertension
B. scarlet fever
C. susceptible
D. acute

14. easily influenced or impressed (usually followed by "to").

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A. vital
B. susceptible
C. chronic
D. hypertension

15. pertaining to or characteristic of life.

A. vital
B. hypertension
C. intervention
D. fatal

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