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 |
|---|---|
| knell | a stroke or sound of a bell especially when rung slowly (as for a death, funeral, or disaster) |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| antagonism | opposition of a conflicting force, tendency, or principle |
| propitious | favorably disposed : benevolent |
| resonant | continuing to sound : echoing |
| vitiate | to make faulty or defective : impair |
| compelling | that compels: such as |
| belabor | to attack verbally |
| spendthrift | a person who spends improvidently or wastefully |