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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WordMeaning
museto become absorbed in thought
decompositionto separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds
abstinencethe practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable
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galvanizeto subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically
repressto check by or as if by pressure : curb
viablecapable of living
ponderousof very great weight
incommodiousnot commodious : inconvenient
salientmoving by leaps or springs : jumping