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 |
|---|---|
| charisma | a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) |
| arrhythmic | lacking rhythm or regularity |
| indicative | serving to indicate |
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| rationale | an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice, or phenomena |
| nurse | a person who cares for the sick or infirm |
| bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| adjunct | something joined or added to another thing but not essentially a part of it |
| forswear | to make a liar of (oneself) under or as if under oath |