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 |
|---|---|
| nimble | quick and light in motion : agile |
| maudlin | drunk enough to be emotionally silly |
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| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| mode | an arrangement of the eight diatonic notes or tones of an octave according to one of several fixed schemes of their intervals (see interval |
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| probe | a slender medical instrument used especially for exploration (as of a wound or body cavity) |
| abject | sunk to or existing in a low state or condition : very bad or severe |