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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| pharisee | a 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 |
| rational | having reason or understanding |
| swarm | a great number of honeybees emigrating together from a hive in company with a queen to start a new colony elsewhere |
| forbearance | a refraining from the enforcement of something (such as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due |
| exodus | the mainly narrative second book of canonical Jewish and Christian Scripture see Bible Table |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| brawny | muscular |
| pretend | to give a false appearance of being, possessing, or performing |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| precedent | prior in time, order, arrangement, or significance |