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 |
|---|---|
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
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| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| intimidate | to make timid or fearful : frighten |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| harping | a plucked stringed instrument consisting of a resonator, an arched or angled neck that may be supported by a post, and strings of graded length that are perpendicular to the soundboard |
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| fruition | pleasurable use or possession : enjoyment |
| inadvertently | unintentional |
| leonine | of, relating to, suggestive of, or resembling a lion |