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 |
|---|---|
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| hurtle | to move rapidly or forcefully |
| sequester | to set apart : segregate |
| brindled | having obscure dark streaks or flecks on a usually gray or tawny ground |
| spatula | a flat thin implement used especially for spreading or mixing soft substances, scooping, or lifting |
| loath | unwilling to do something contrary to one's ways of thinking : reluctant |
| hieroglyphic | written in, constituting, or belonging to a system of writing mainly in pictorial characters |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| titanic | having great magnitude, force, or power : colossal |
| executioner | one who executes |