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 |
|---|---|
| sodden | dull or expressionless especially from continued indulgence in alcoholic beverages |
| din | a loud continued noise |
| cogent | appealing forcibly to the mind or reason : convincing |
| pugnacity | having a quarrelsome or combative nature : truculent |
| pallet | a straw-filled tick or mattress |
| queer | differing in some way from what is usual or normal : odd |
| opiate | an alkaloid drug (such as morphine or codeine) that contains or is derived from opium, binds to cell receptors primarily of the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, acts to block pain, induce sedation or sleep, depress respiration, and produce calmness or euphoria, and is associated with physiological tolerance (see tolerance |
| irrefutable | impossible to refute : incontrovertible |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| obloquy | a strongly condemnatory utterance : abusive language |