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 |
|---|---|
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
| unregenerate | not regenerate |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| enterprise | a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky |
| spurious | born to parents not married to each other |
| pied | of two or more colors in blotches |
| repine | to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain |
| advent | the period beginning four Sundays before Christmas and observed by some Christians as a season of prayer and fasting |
| scowl | to contract the brow in an expression of displeasure |