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 |
|---|---|
| staid | marked by settled sedateness and often prim self-restraint : sober |
| expostulation | an act or an instance of expostulating |
| feint | something feigned |
| regatta | a rowing, speedboat, or sailing race or a series of such races |
| windfall | something (such as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind |
| denouement | the final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work |
| pharisaical | marked by hypocritical censorious self-righteousness |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |
| anthem | a song or hymn of praise or gladness |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |