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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computeto determine especially by mathematical means
frugalitythe quality or state of being frugal : careful management of material resources and especially money : thrift
tautologicalinvolving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant
dictuma noteworthy statement: such as
provocativeserving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate
galvanizeto subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically
ineptgenerally incompetent : bungling
diffidencethe quality or state of being unassertive or bashful : the quality or state of being diffident
extrudeto force, press, or push out
humidcontaining or characterized by perceptible moisture especially to the point of being oppressive