Today’s word of the day is ‘Gyrate.‘ Let us understand more about this word.
Gyrate [jahy-reyt]
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?
1. Revolve
2. To move in a circle or spiral, or around a fixed point
3. Whirl
4. Circumduct
How is the word pronounced in popular languages?
1. Hindi- Chakrakaar vyavasthith
2. Spanish – Girar
3. French – Tournoyer
4. Mandarin – Huízhuǎn
How to use this word in a sentence?
1. The molecules show all kinds of possible combinations; the combinations spin, turn head over heels and gyrate in endless ways.
2. Both the image before them and the distant figure on the knoll were seen to wave arms and gyrate simultaneously.
3. Others began to gyrate over and under their horses in a dizzy way.
4. He then took off his boots and his coat, and standing on his toes he commenced to gyrate with extraordinary rapidity.
5. These sometimes circle and gyrate for some time after they are flushed before settling on the sea again.
What are some synonyms of the word of the day?
Some synonyms of the word are:
What are some antonyms of the word of the day?
Some antonyms of the word are:
Steady etc.
Quotation:
Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
T. J. Miller
Social Example:
Canadians are *desperate* to project their atrocious Residential School System and Genocide of Indigenous People onto China.
Their hungry embrace of the Xinjiang narrative seems to gyrate around the expunging of white/national guilt, and establishing themselves as better-than.
— Roderic Day (@RodericDay) December 25, 2020
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