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 |
|---|---|
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| compunction | anxiety arising from awareness of guilt |
| obfuscate | to throw into shadow : darken |
| conversant | having knowledge or experience |
| perennial | present at all seasons of the year |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| stoic | a member of a school of philosophy founded by Zeno of Citium about 300 b.c. |
| mass | the liturgy of the Eucharist (see eucharist |