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 |
|---|---|
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| stagnant | not flowing in a current or stream |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| nonentity | something that does not exist or exists only in the imagination |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| begrudge | to give or concede reluctantly or with displeasure |
| glamor | an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness |
| equivocate | to use equivocal language especially with intent to deceive |
| bulge | to jut out : swell |
| insolvent | unable to pay debts as they fall due in the usual course of business |