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 |
|---|---|
| omniscient | having infinite awareness, understanding, and insight |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| celerity | rapidity of motion or action |
| subservient | useful in an inferior capacity : subordinate |
| smart | having or showing a high degree of mental ability : intelligent |
| tautological | involving or containing rhetorical tautology : redundant |
| antidote | a remedy to counteract the effects of poison |
| tutelary | having the guardianship of a person or a thing |
| unassuaged | not quenched, eased, or satisfied : not assuaged |
| captious | marked by an often ill-natured inclination to stress faults and raise objections |