3. Pick an original topic. If you are giving a report to your classmates, try to pick a topic that is original and engaging. If you are the third person to give a report on Disneyland that day, chances are you probably wonât have your classmates attention. If you are writing a report about a specific person, company, or place, try to find their own website. 2  For instance, if you are writing a report on Jane Goodall, a great source would be using the Jane Goodall Institute website.
Use the adjective contiguous when you want to describe one thing touching another thing, or next to it but not actually touching. Things that are contiguous are near or next to but not actually touching and yet they are also defined as touching, sharing a border.. You can use this adjective to describe people or things related to and nearby others. It comes from the Latin word contiguus, which means pretty much the same thing, bordering upon.. Because the word has two meanings that are very similar but not always the same it can be a bit confusing. This is an example of what's called semantic ambiguity, when something can mean more than one thing or a word or phrase is not precise.
SYNONYMY NOTE: adjacent things may or may not be in actual contact with each other, but they are not separated by things of the same kind [adjacent angles, adjacent farmhouses]; that which is adjoining something else touches it at some point or along a line [adjoining rooms]; things are contiguous when they touch along the whole or most of one side [contiguous farms]; tangent implies contact at a single, nonintersecting point with a curved line or surface [a line tangent to a circle ...