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 |
|---|---|
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| unwitting | not knowing : unaware |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| proponent | one who argues in favor of something : advocate |
| primordial | first created or developed : primeval |
| asymmetric | having two sides or halves that are not the same : not symmetrical |
| bizarre | strikingly out of the ordinary: such as |
| analgesic | an agent producing diminished sensation to pain without loss of consciousness : a drug that is used to relieve pain and produce analgesia |
| impair | to diminish in function, ability, or quality : to weaken or make worse |
| imbue | endow |