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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inopportuneinconvenient
igniteto set afire
shuntto turn off to one side : shift
gentryupper or ruling class : aristocracy
reconditedifficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend : deep
coniferany of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit
innateexisting in, belonging to, or determined by factors present in an individual from birth : native
outragean act of violence or brutality
kleptomaniaca person evidencing kleptomania
precociousexceptionally early in development or occurrence