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 |
|---|---|
| piety | the quality or state of being pious: such as |
| badger | any of various burrowing mammals (especially Taxidea taxus and Meles meles) of the weasel family that are widely distributed in the northern hemisphere |
| requisite | needed for a particular purpose : essential |
| negligence | the quality or state of being negligent |
| utopia | a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions |
| pare | to trim off an outside, excess, or irregular part of |
| grouch | a fit of bad temper |
| scruple | a unit of capacity equal to ¹/₂₄ Apothecaries' ounce see Weights and Measures Table |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |