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 |
|---|---|
| humanitarian | a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist |
| partiality | the quality or state of being partial : bias |
| notable | worthy of note : remarkable |
| ethereal | of or relating to the regions beyond the earth |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| effete | no longer fertile |
| sporadic | occurring occasionally, singly, or in irregular or random instances |
| patriarch | one of the scriptural fathers of the human race or of the Hebrew people |
| scabbard | a sheath for a sword, dagger, or bayonet |
| fanciful | marked by fancy or unrestrained imagination rather than by reason and experience |