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 |
|---|---|
| dissonance | lack of agreement |
| hone | to sharpen or smooth with a whetstone |
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| apathy | lack of feeling or emotion : impassiveness |
| coalition | the act of coalescing : union |
| executioner | one who executes |
| decorous | marked by propriety and good taste : correct |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| impending | occurring or likely to occur soon : upcoming |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |