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 |
|---|---|
| solemnity | formal or ceremonious observance of an occasion or event |
| contest | strive |
| juggernaut | a massive inexorable force, campaign, movement, or object that crushes whatever is in its path |
| vainglorious | marked by vainglory : boastful |
| cherubic | an order of angels see celestial hierarchy |
| barrister | a counsel admitted to plead at the bar and undertake the public trial of causes in an English superior court compare solicitor |
| paraphrase | a restatement of a text, passage, or work giving the meaning in another form |
| impudence | the quality or state of being impudent |
| subsistence | real being : existence |
| callus | a thickening of or a hard thickened area on skin or bark |