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 |
|---|---|
| warranted | sanction |
| tenure | the act, right, manner, or term of holding something (such as a landed property, a position, or an office) |
| standstill | a state characterized by absence of motion or of progress : stop |
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| labyrinth | a place constructed of or full of intricate passageways and blind alleys |
| piety | the quality or state of being pious: such as |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| myriad | ten thousand |
| reminiscence | apprehension of a Platonic idea as if it had been known in a previous existence |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |