GRE Word List
CONTIGUOUS
being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point
The meaning of the word contiguous is being in actual contact : touching along a boundary or at a point.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| apologist | someone who speaks or writes in defense of someone or something that is typically controversial, unpopular, or subject to criticism |
| flair | a skill or instinctive ability to appreciate or make good use of something : talent |
| pristine | belonging to the earliest period or state : original |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| amphitheater | an oval or circular building with rising tiers of seats ranged about an open space and used in ancient Rome especially for contests and spectacles |
| lionize | to treat as an object of great interest or importance |
| parameter | an arbitrary constant whose value characterizes a member of a system (such as a family of curves) |
| flip | to toss so as to cause to turn over in the air |
| bugaboo | an imaginary object of fear |
| chimerical | existing only as the product of unchecked imagination : fantastically visionary (see visionary |