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 |
|---|---|
| expunge | to strike out, obliterate, or mark for deletion |
| bristle | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| melancholy | depression of spirits : dejection |
| rhapsodize | to speak or write in a rhapsodic manner |
| hovel | an open shed or shelter |
| punitive | inflicting, involving, or aiming at punishment |
| effluvium | an invisible emanation |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |
| encircle | to form a circle around : surround |
| defalcate | deduct |