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 |
|---|---|
| dislodge | to drive from a position of hiding, defense, or advantage |
| tribulation | distress or suffering resulting from oppression or persecution |
| unprecedented | having no precedent : novel |
| abysmal | immeasurably low or wretched : extremely poor or bad |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| taciturn | temperamentally disinclined to talk |
| erudite | having or showing knowledge that is gained by studying : possessing or displaying erudition |
| pedestrian | commonplace |
| penchant | a strong and continued inclination |
| gargoyle | a spout in the form of a grotesque human or animal figure projecting from a roof gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building |