GRE Word List
CONTUSION
injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise
The meaning of the word contusion is injury to tissue usually without laceration : bruise.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ineluctable | not to be avoided, changed, or resisted : inevitable |
| checkered | marked by alternating squares of different colors, shades, or materials |
| chaste | innocent of unlawful sexual intercourse |
| subliminal | inadequate to produce a sensation or a perception |
| merit | a praiseworthy quality : virtue |
| vampire | the reanimated body of a dead person believed to come from the grave at night and suck the blood of persons asleep |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| exclaim | to cry out or speak in strong or sudden emotion |
| swear-word | word considered offensive; Ex. ``bloody'' |
| etymology | the history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language |