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 |
|---|---|
| clip | encompass |
| remittance | a sum of money remitted |
| detonation | the action or process of detonating |
| shuffle | to mix in a mass confusedly : jumble |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| squash | to press or beat into a pulp or a flat mass : crush |
| proscribe | to publish the name of as condemned to death with the property of the condemned forfeited to the state |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| poignancy | the quality or state of being poignant |