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 |
|---|---|
| euthanasia | the act or practice of killing or permitting the death of hopelessly sick or injured individuals (such as persons or domestic animals) in a relatively painless way for reasons of mercy |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| reckon | count |
| vouchsafe | to grant or furnish often in a gracious or condescending manner |
| emissary | one designated as the agent of another : representative |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| aggrandize | to make great or greater : increase |
| pulpit | an elevated platform or high reading desk used in preaching or conducting a worship service |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| psychiatrist | a medical doctor who diagnoses and treats mental, emotional, and behavioral disorders : a specialist in psychiatry |