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 |
|---|---|
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| hoary | gray or white with or as if with age |
| malediction | curse |
| sovereign | one possessing or held to possess supreme political power or sovereignty |
| maniacal | affected with or suggestive of madness |
| choreography | the art of symbolically representing dancing |
| prune | a plum dried or capable of drying without fermentation |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| soothsayer | a person who predicts the future by magical, intuitive, or more rational means : prognosticator |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |