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 |
|---|---|
| rile | to make agitated and angry : upset |
| whine | to utter a high-pitched plaintive or distressed cry |
| draft | the act of drawing or pulling in a net |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| caustic | capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action : corrosive |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| rebuke | to criticize sharply : reprimand |
| cleft | a space or opening made by or as if by splitting : fissure |
| obtrude | to thrust out : extrude |
| callow | lacking adult sophistication : immature |
