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 |
|---|---|
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| limber | having a supple and resilient quality (as of mind or body) : agile |
| wisp | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| ruddy | having a healthy reddish color |
| succor | relief |
| 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 |
| bridle | the headgear with which a horse is governed and which carries a bit (see bit |
| doom | a law or ordinance especially in Anglo-Saxon England |
| dismiss | to permit or cause to leave |