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 |
|---|---|
| doddering | feeble |
| cantata | a composition for one or more voices usually comprising solos, duets, recitatives, and choruses and sung to an instrumental accompaniment |
| disengage | to release from something that engages or involves |
| solicitous | manifesting or expressing solicitude |
| ingenuous | showing innocent or childlike simplicity and candidness |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| convex | curved or rounded outward like the exterior of a sphere or circle |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| bandy | to discuss lightly or banteringly |
| penitent | feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant |