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 |
|---|---|
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| import | to bring from a foreign or external source: such as |
| purport | to have the often specious appearance of being, intending, or claiming (something implied or inferred) |
| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
| abeyance | a state of temporary inactivity : suspension |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| symbiosis | the living together in more or less intimate association or close union of two dissimilar organisms (as in parasitism or commensalism) |
| pittance | a small portion, amount, or allowance |