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 |
|---|---|
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| analgesia | insensibility to pain without loss of consciousness |
| rally | to muster for a common purpose |
| epicure | one with sensitive and discriminating tastes especially in food or wine |
| inaugurate | to induct into an office with suitable ceremonies |
| misogynist | a person who hates or discriminates against women : a misogynistic person |
| trough | a long shallow often V-shaped receptacle for the drinking water or feed of domestic animals |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| clamber | to climb awkwardly or with effort especially by using both the hands and the feet |
| trivia | unimportant matters : trivial facts or details |