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 |
|---|---|
| unkempt | not combed |
| imminent | ready to take place : happening soon |
| tenuous | having little substance or strength : flimsy |
| flick | a light sharp jerky stroke or movement |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| synchronous | happening, existing, or arising at precisely the same time |
| recital | a detailed account : enumeration |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| snub | to check or stop with a cutting retort : rebuke |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |