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.
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Word | Meaning |
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immaculate | spotlessly clean |
compartment | a separate division or section |
carousal | a wild, drunken party or celebration : a drunken revel : carouse |
resound | to become filled with sound : reverberate |
maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
nourishment | food |
vaporize | to convert (as by the application of heat or by spraying) into vapor |
die | to pass from physical life : expire |
hardy | bold |