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 |
|---|---|
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| demeanor | behavior toward others : outward manner |
| dutiful | filled with or motivated by a sense of duty |
| exertion | the act or an instance of exerting |
| perfidious | of, relating to, or characterized by perfidy |
| eugenic | relating to or fitted for the production of good offspring |
| dichotomy | a division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| wangle | to resort to trickery or devious methods |