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 |
|---|---|
| uninhibited | free from inhibition |
| transitory | of brief duration : temporary |
| talon | the claw of an animal and especially of a bird of prey |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| emulate | to strive to equal or excel |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| ostracize | to exile by ostracism |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| predetermine | foreordain |