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 |
|---|---|
| incredulous | unwilling to admit or accept what is offered as true : not credulous : skeptical |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| bemused | marked by confusion or bewilderment : dazed |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| altruistic | relating to or given to altruism: |
| gaffe | a social or diplomatic blunder |
| matriarch | a woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state |
| deflect | to turn (something) aside especially from a straight course or fixed direction |
| disquietude | anxiety |
| perennial | present at all seasons of the year |