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 |
|---|---|
| chaff | the seed coverings and other debris separated from the seed in threshing grain |
| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| pedestal | the support or foot of a late classic or neoclassical column see column illustration |
| credulity | readiness or willingness to believe especially on slight or uncertain evidence |
| augury | divination from auspices (see auspice |
| mendacious | given to or characterized by deception or falsehood or divergence from absolute truth |
| notoriety | the quality or state of being notorious |
| voyeur | someone who obtains sexual gratification from observing unsuspecting individuals who are partly undressed, naked, or engaged in sexual acts |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| perimeter | the boundary of a closed plane figure |