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 |
|---|---|
| astigmatism | a defect of an optical system (such as a lens) causing rays from a point to fail to meet in a focal point resulting in a blurred and imperfect image |
| insurmountable | incapable of being surmounted : insuperable |
| plenitude | the quality or state of being full : completeness |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| title | the distinguishing name of a written, printed, or filmed production |
| prototype | an original model on which something is patterned : archetype |
| predicament | the character, status, or classification assigned by a predication |
| headlong | headfirst |
| satire | a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn |
| synthetic | relating to or involving synthesis : not analytic |