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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reconnaissance | a preliminary survey to gain information |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain : greediness |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| utopia | a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions |
| presage | something that foreshadows or portends a future event : omen |
| sepulcher | a place of burial : tomb |
| cursory | rapidly and often superficially performed or produced : hasty |
| stratagem | an artifice or trick in war for deceiving and outwitting the enemy |