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 |
|---|---|
| beneficial | producing good results or helpful effects : conferring benefits (see benefit |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| renounce | to give up, refuse, or resign usually by formal declaration |
| coin | corner |
| abhor | to regard with extreme repugnance : to feel hatred or loathing for : loathe |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| smolder | to burn sluggishly, without flame, and often with much smoke |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| missile | capable of being thrown or projected to strike a distant object |