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 |
|---|---|
| contraband | illegal or prohibited traffic in goods : smuggling |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
| pittance | a small portion, amount, or allowance |
| rabid | extremely violent : furious |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| universal | including or covering all or a whole collectively or distributively without limit or exception |
| facile | easily accomplished or attained |