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 |
|---|---|
| recapitulate | to retell or restate briefly : summarize |
| residue | something that remains after a part is taken, separated, or designated or after the completion of a process : remnant |
| clown | farmer |
| carrion | dead and putrefying flesh |
| mite | any of numerous small acarid arachnids that often infest animals, plants, and stored foods and include important disease vectors |
| latent | present and capable of emerging or developing but not now visible, obvious, active, or symptomatic |
| arcane | known or knowable only to a few people : secret |
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| sleigh | an open usually horse-drawn vehicle with runners for use on snow or ice |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |