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 |
|---|---|
| infer | to derive as a conclusion from facts or premises |
| comatose | of, resembling, or affected with coma |
| deport | to send out of the country by legal deportation |
| expository | of, relating to, or containing exposition |
| libido | instinctual psychic energy that in psychoanalytic theory is derived from primitive biological urges (as for sexual pleasure or self-preservation) and that is expressed in conscious activity |
| implicit | capable of being understood from something else though unexpressed : implied |
| stolid | having or expressing little or no sensibility : unemotional |
| indigence | a level of poverty in which real hardship and deprivation are suffered and comforts of life are wholly lacking |
| juncture | a point of time |
| vehement | marked by forceful energy : powerful |