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 |
|---|---|
| fawning | seeking or used to seek approval or favor by means of flattery |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| emasculate | to deprive of strength, vigor, or spirit : weaken |
| substantial | consisting of or relating to substance |
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| urbane | notably polite or polished in manner |
| spartan | a native or inhabitant of ancient Sparta |
| polarity | the quality or condition inherent in a body that exhibits opposite properties or powers in opposite parts or directions or that exhibits contrasted properties or powers in contrasted parts or directions : the condition of having poles |
| clown | farmer |
| casualty | a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action |