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 |
|---|---|
| disseminate | to spread abroad as though sowing seed |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| intrepid | characterized by resolute fearlessness, fortitude, and endurance |
| supercilious | coolly and patronizingly haughty |
| pestilential | causing or tending to cause pestilence : deadly |
| ordeal | a primitive means used to determine guilt or innocence by submitting the accused to dangerous or painful tests believed to be under supernatural control |
| lot | an object used as a counter in determining a question by chance see also throw in one's lot with |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| acrid | sharp and harsh or unpleasantly pungent in taste or odor : irritating |
| adjutant | a staff officer in the army, air force, or marine corps who assists the commanding officer and is responsible especially for correspondence |