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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| brawny | muscular |
| preamble | an introductory statement |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| quay | a structure built parallel to the bank of a waterway for use as a landing place |
| pacifist | an adherent to pacifism : someone who opposes war or violence as a means of settling disputes |
| fracas | a noisy quarrel : brawl |
| natation | the action or art of swimming |
| gruel | a thin porridge |
| prompt | to move to action : incite |