The museum's adjacent galleries allowed visitors to compare Renaissance paintings with Baroque sculptures in one visit.
博物馆相邻的展厅让游客在一次参观中就能比较文艺复兴绘画和巴洛克雕塑。
A transportation planner claims that adding a protected pedestrian crossing near a busy shopping district would increase foot traffic to nearby stores without significantly slowing vehicle traffic on the adjacent street.
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Which choice best defines “adjacent”?
C — Next to. “adjacent” means next to.
Which word means “next to”?
A — adjacent. “adjacent” means next to.
adjacent — next to. In Chinese: 毗邻的，邻近的.
adjacent is pronounced /əˈdʒeɪsnt/.
The museum's adjacent galleries allowed visitors to compare Renaissance paintings with Baroque sculptures in one visit. (博物馆相邻的展厅让游客在一次参观中就能比较文艺复兴绘画和巴洛克雕塑。)
neighboring, adjoining, contiguous — all close in meaning to adjacent (next to).
distant, remote — each the opposite of adjacent (next to).
Yes. adjacent is on the SAT Prep Easy list — mid-frequency academic words that do get tested. The Digital SAT does not test vocabulary in isolation; words like this one are tested through Words in Context questions, where you choose the word that completes a passage most logically and precisely.
ad(to)+jac(lie)+ent(adj)