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 |
|---|---|
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| debris | the remains of something broken down or destroyed |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |
| rebus | a representation of words or syllables by pictures of objects or by symbols whose names resemble the intended words or syllables in sound |
| fraught | full of or accompanied by something specified |
| spatula | a flat thin implement used especially for spreading or mixing soft substances, scooping, or lifting |
| grill | to broil on a grill |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |