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 |
|---|---|
| accost | to approach and speak to (someone) in an often challenging or aggressive way |
| nullify | to make null (see null |
| venial | of a kind that can be remitted : forgivable |
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| adjoin | to add or attach by joining |
| construe | to analyze the arrangement and connection of words in (a sentence or sentence part) |
| dowry | the money, goods, or estate that a woman brings to her husband in marriage |
| tantrum | a fit of bad temper |
| verity | the quality or state of being true or real |
| touchy | marked by readiness to take offense on slight provocation |