NLN-PAX Vocabulary from Study Guide Latest 2023

callous - made hard explicit - fully and clearly expressed partisan - biased, emotional allegiance limbo - an intermediate, transitional succumbing - to give way to superior force; yield malingering - to pretend illness, to avoid work, etc avarice - insatiable greed for riches admonition - counsel, advice, or caution veneration - the act of treating with profound respect animosity - strong dislike menial - lowly / degrading nominal - not real; too small to be considered or taken seriously cynical - distrusting the motives of others candid - completely honest, straightforward eloquent - fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech continuum - a continuous extent, series, or whole symposium - a meeting or conference for the discussion of some subject presumptuous - bold of forward; going beyond that which is proper vacillated - indecisive or irresolute transgressed - go beyond (a limit, boundary, etc.) ascetic - self-denying