It's the word of the day for March 25th.
Today's word is undulate, spelled U-N-D-U-L-A-T-E.
Undulate is a verb.
It's a formal word that means to move or be shaped like waves.
Here's the word used in a sentence from The Epic History of Macaroni and Cheese,
From Ancient Rome to Modern America, by Karima Moyernaki.
When sufficiently heated, the fresh cheese contracts,
sweating away from the curds that provides liquid to cook the dough,
which will plump up and undulate slightly as it expands.
Undulate and inundate, meaning to cover something with a flood of water,
are word cousins that flow from unda, the Latin word for wave.
No surprise there.
But would you have guessed that the words abound, surround, and redound are also unda offspring?
While their modern definitions have nothing to do with waves or water,
at some point in their early histories, they all meant to overflow and cut the wave from there.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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