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 |
|---|---|
| muse | to become absorbed in thought |
| decomposition | to separate into constituent parts or elements or into simpler compounds |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| galvanize | to subject to the action of an electric current especially for the purpose of stimulating physiologically |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| viable | capable of living |
| ponderous | of very great weight |
| incommodious | not commodious : inconvenient |
| salient | moving by leaps or springs : jumping |