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 |
|---|---|
| hideous | offensive to the senses and especially to sight : exceedingly ugly |
| plausible | superficially fair, reasonable, or valuable but often specious |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| attribute | a quality, character, or characteristic ascribed to someone or something |
| vivisection | the cutting of or operation on a living animal usually for physiological or pathological investigation |
| coquette | a woman who endeavors without sincere affection to gain the attention and admiration of men |
| freebooter | pirate |
| warranted | sanction |
| dubious | unsettled in opinion : doubtful |
| stickler | one who insists on exactness or completeness in the observance of something |