Tuesday, April 22, 2008

VOCABULARY WORD NO. 16

Your life is measured by the things you do without expecting a reward. Give selflessly and it will all flow back to you in some form. ( Brenda A. Ysaguirre)

Today's Word "undulant"
undulant \UN-juh-lunt; UN-dyuh-\ (adjective) - Resembling waves in form, motion, or occurrence. "After some time the car slowed to a palpitant pause at a spot where the road was bordered on one hand by a woods, on the other by meadow-lands running down to an arm of a bay, on whose gently undulant surface the flame-tipped finger of a distant lighthouse drew an undulant path of radiance." -- Louis Joseph Vance, 'The Destroying Angel' Undulant is from Late Latin undula, "a small wave," diminutive of Latin unda, "wave."

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