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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| flutter | to flap the wings rapidly |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
| filch | to steal secretly or casually |
| convoluted | having convolutions |
| piscatorial | piscatory |
| cabal | the contrived schemes of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government) |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| refute | to prove wrong by argument or evidence : show to be false or erroneous |