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 |
|---|---|
| semblance | outward and often specious appearance or show : form |
| compliance | the act or process of complying to a desire, demand, proposal, or regimen or to coercion |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| simper | to smile in a silly, affected, or ingratiating manner |
| adulation | extreme or excessive admiration or flattery |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| innate | existing in, belonging to, or determined by factors present in an individual from birth : native |
| decree | an order usually having the force of law |
| fickle | marked by lack of steadfastness, constancy, or stability : given to erratic changeableness |