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 |
|---|---|
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |
| tout | to make much of : promote |
| hardy | bold |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| recluse | marked by withdrawal from society : solitary |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| foppish | foolish |
| feign | to give a false appearance of : induce as a false impression |