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 |
|---|---|
| condone | to regard or treat (something bad or blameworthy) as acceptable, forgivable, or harmless |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| epicurean | of or relating to Epicurus or Epicureanism |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| commonwealth | a nation, state, or other political unit: such as |
| arraign | to call (a defendant) before a court to answer to an indictment : charge |
| random | a haphazard course |
| elysium | the abode of the blessed after death in classical mythology |