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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beneficialproducing good results or helpful effects : conferring benefits (see benefit
pugnacityhaving a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent
millenniumthe thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation
renounceto give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration
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abhorto regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe
sluggarda habitually lazy person
smolderto burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke
exiguousexcessively scanty : inadequate
missilecapable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object