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 |
|---|---|
| discretion | individual choice or judgment |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| mordant | biting and caustic in thought, manner, or style : incisive |
| decant | to draw off (a liquid) without disturbing the sediment or the lower liquid layers |
| pejorative | a word or phrase that has negative connotations (see connotation |
| grimace | a facial expression usually of disgust, disapproval, or pain |
| siren | any of a group of female and partly human creatures in Greek mythology that lured mariners to destruction by their singing |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| diminution | the act, process, or an instance of becoming gradually less (as in size or importance) : the act, process, or an instance of diminishing : decrease |
| bearing | the manner in which one behaves or comports oneself : the manner in which one bears (see bear |