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 |
|---|---|
| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| restraint | an act of restraining : the state of being restrained |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| suavity | smoothly though often superficially gracious and sophisticated |
| wrongheaded | stubborn in adherence to wrong opinion or principles |
| translucent | permitting the passage of light: |
| termination | end in time or existence : conclusion |
| bewitch | to influence or affect especially injuriously by witchcraft |
| inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |