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 |
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| ferret | a domesticated usually albino, brownish, or silver-gray animal (Mustela putorius furo) that is descended from the European polecat |
| draw | to cause to move continuously toward or after a force applied in advance : pull |
| threadbare | having the nap worn off so that the thread shows : shabby |
| jubilation | an act of rejoicing : the state of being jubilant |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| incrustation | a crust or hard coating |
| inculcate | to teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions |
| coterie | an intimate and often exclusive group of persons with a unifying common interest or purpose |
| acclivity | an ascending slope (as of a hill) |