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 |
|---|---|
| penury | a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (such as money) |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |
| appease | pacify |
| predator | an organism that primarily obtains food by the killing and consuming of other organisms : an organism that lives by predation |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| chronic | continuing or occurring again and again for a long time |
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| episodic | made up of separate especially loosely connected episodes |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |