Today’s word of the day is ‘Assimilate.‘ Let us understand more about this word.
Assimilate [uh–sim–uh-leyt]
What is this word’s grammar?
The word is a verb, i.e., it demonstrates an action or an occurrence.
Does the word have a past tense? What is it?
Yes, the past form of the word is assimilated.
1. Absorb mentally
2. Become adjusted
3. Become similar
4. Become like
How is the word pronounced in popular languages?
1. Hindi – Apanaana
2. Spanish – Asimilar
3. French – Assimiler
4. Mandarin – Xīshōu
How to use this word in a sentence?
1. Poetry is unable, under pain of death or decay, to assimilate itself to morals or science.
2. As regarded their dealings other than commercial in nature the tendency was to assimilate the tensors and the townsmen.
3. The first was, that the politics of Major Bridgenorth began, on many points, to assimilate themselves to his own.
4. These gardens are rather like oriental flower-plots, but they assimilate well with the climate.
5. It is not because the Negro and the Japanese are so differently constituted that they do not assimilate.
What are some synonyms of the word of the day?
Some synonyms of the word are:
accommodate, adapt, blend in, homogenize, acclimatize, acculturate, accustom, conform, fit, homologize, intermix, match, mingle, parallel, standardize, become like, become similar etc
What are some antonyms of the word of the day?
Some antonyms of the word are:
disarrange, differ, misunderstand, not adapt, reject, unlearn etc.
Quotation:
A snappy label and a manifesto would have been two of the very last things on my own career want list. That label enabled mainstream science fiction to safely assimilate our dissident influence, such as it was. Cyberpunk could then be embraced and given prizes and patted on the head, and genre science fiction could continue unchanged.
William Gibson
Social Example:
Research shows that the high levels of stress hormone we're producing due to the pandemic inhibit perceptual learning & memory formation & interfere with our ability to assimilate facts & focus on a task.
If you're finding working,reading & concentrating difficult this is why. pic.twitter.com/Rvavn5geaN
— Emma Mitchell 💙 (@silverpebble) February 2, 2021
Discussion about this post