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 |
|---|---|
| girth | a band or strap that encircles the body of an animal to fasten something (such as a saddle) on its back |
| clique | a narrow exclusive circle or group of persons |
| elixir | a substance held capable of changing base metals into gold |
| render | to melt down |
| tundra | a level or rolling treeless plain that is characteristic of arctic and subarctic regions, consists of black mucky soil with a permanently frozen subsoil, and has a dominant vegetation of mosses, lichens, herbs, and dwarf shrubs |
| rendition | the act or result of rendering something: such as |
| limpid | marked by transparency (see transparent |
| quadruped | an animal having four feet |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| preen | to groom with the bill especially by rearranging the barbs and barbules of the feathers and by distributing oil from the uropygial gland |