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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phariseea member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law
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forbearancea refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due
exodusthe mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table
putativecommonly accepted or supposed
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pretendto give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing
petrifyto convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter
precedentprior in time, order, arrangement, or significance