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 |
|---|---|
| spontaneity | the quality or state of being spontaneous |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| confidential | marked by intimacy or willingness to confide |
| concentric | having a common center |
| gawk | a clumsy stupid person : lout |
| avert | to turn away or aside (the eyes, one's gaze, etc.) in avoidance |
| dissertation | an extended usually written treatment of a subject |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| humus | a brown or black complex variable material resulting from partial decomposition of plant or animal matter and forming the organic (see organic |
| overthrow | overturn |