Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Word of the Week #5

Word: contiguous 

Source info: article, "In Seattle, Amazon Leads an Upswing in Office Space" from the NY Times


Sentence: Last month the company made a deal with Clise Properties, Seattle’s largest downtown landowner, to buy three contiguous blocks, or about five acres, near downtown.

Definition: contiguous
-adjective, touching; in contact; in close proximity without actually touching

example:
The countless number of books sat contiguously on the shelf.

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