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 |
|---|---|
| invincible | incapable of being conquered, overcome, or subdued |
| impede | to interfere with or slow the progress of |
| vaunted | highly or widely praised or boasted about |
| squalor | the quality or state of being squalid |
| filibuster | an irregular military adventurer |
| pitfall | trap |
| inept | generally incompetent : bungling |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| impromptu | made, done, or formed on or as if on the spur of the moment : improvised |