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 |
|---|---|
| shear | to cut off the hair from |
| repellent | serving or tending to drive away or ward off |
| trilogy | a series of three dramas or literary works or sometimes three musical compositions that are closely related and develop a single theme |
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| reckon | count |
| effective | producing a decided, decisive, or desired effect |
| meager | having little flesh : thin |
| benevolent | marked by or disposed to doing good |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| bastion | a projecting part of a fortification |