signifies being joined together. Contiguous, in French
_contigu_, Latin _contiguus_, comes from _contingo_, or
_con_ and _tango_, signifying to touch close.

What is _adjacent_ may be separated altogether by the
intervention of some third object; what is _adjoining_ must
touch in some part; and what is _contiguous_ must be fitted
to touch entirely on one side. Lands are _adjacent_ to a
house or town; fields are _adjoining_ to each other; and
houses _contiguous_ to each other.

CRABBE: _English Synonyms_

Victory: Synonyms: achievement, advantage, conquest, mastery,
success, supremacy, triumph. _Victory_ is the state resulting
from the overcoming of an opponent or opponents in any
contest, or from the overcoming of difficulties, obstacles,
evils, etc., considered as opponents or enemies. In the
latter sense any hard-won _achievement_, _advantage,_ or
_success_ may be termed a victory. In _conquest_ and
_mastery_ there is implied a permanence of state that is not
implied in _victory_. _Triumph_, originally denoting the
public rejoicing in honor of a _victory_, has come to signify
also a peculiarly exultant, complete, and glorious _victory_.
Compare _conquer_. Antonyms: defeat, destruction,
disappointment, disaster, failure, frustration, miscarriage,
overthrow, retreat, rout.

FERNALD: _English Synonyms, Antonyms and Prepositions_

Antonyms. Notice that this second paragraph adds a new
word-list--_antonyms_. To reinforce the understanding of what a thing
is, it is desirable to know what it is not, or what its opposite is.
This kind of explanation or description is especially valuable to a
speaker. He can frequently impress an audience more definitely by
explaining the opposite of what he wants them to apprehend. At times
the term is not the extreme opposite; it is merely the negative of the
other. Logically the other side of _white_ is _not white_, while the
antonym is the extreme _black_. Trained speakers use with great effect
the principle underlying such groups of words. When Burke argued
before the House of Commons for a plan to secure harmony with the
American colonies he described the scheme he considered necessary by
showing what it should not be. "No partial, narrow, contracted,
pinched, occasional system will be at all suitable to such an object."
Describing the peace he hoped would be secured he used this pr