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 |
|---|---|
| categorical | absolute |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| dour | stern |
| wreak | bring about |
| brunt | the principal force, shock, or stress (as of an attack) |
| gush | to issue copiously or violently |
| juridical | of or relating to the administration of justice or the office of a judge |
| trek | to make one's way arduously |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| metallurgical | the science and technology of metals |