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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|---|---|
| trickster | one who tricks: such as |
| provenance | origin |
| intervene | to occur, fall, or come between points of time or events |
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| dissipate | to break up and drive off |
| execute | to carry out fully : put completely into effect |
| deputize | to appoint as deputy |
| oblique | neither perpendicular nor parallel : inclined |
| polemic | an aggressive attack on or refutation of the opinions or principles of another |
| abridge | to shorten by omission of words without sacrifice of sense : condense |