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 |
|---|---|
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| frenetic | marked by fast and energetic, disordered, or anxiety-driven activity : frenzied |
| hiatus | a break in or as if in a material object : gap |
| dumbfound | to confound (see confound |
| specious | having a false look of truth or genuineness : sophistic |
| rapt | lifted up and carried away |
| parry | to ward off a weapon or blow |
| welt | a strip between a shoe sole and upper through which they are stitched or stapled together |
| faculty | ability |
| circumscribe | to constrict (see constrict |