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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exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
nemesis | the Greek goddess of retributive justice |
graphite | a soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors |
submissive | submitting to others |
mendicant | beggar |
mollycoddle | to treat with an excessive or absurd degree of indulgence and attention |
charm | the chanting or reciting of a magic spell : incantation |
saturnine | born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn |
consolidation | the act or process of consolidating : the state of being consolidated |
enigma | something hard to understand or explain |