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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|---|---|
| enact | to establish by legal and authoritative act |
| passive | acted upon by an external agency |
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| prelude | an introductory performance, action, or event preceding and preparing for the principal or a more important matter |
| fallible | liable to be erroneous |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| timbre | the quality given to a sound by its overtones: such as |
| ominous | being or exhibiting an omen : portentous |
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