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undulant
1、 Rising and falling in waves.
2、 Wavy in form, outline, or surface.
🌱The man's undulant, sinister movements reminded her of a poisonous snake about to strike. 🌳The surface of a freshly plowed field is undulant. A range of rolling hills could be called undulant, as could the shifting sands of the Sahara. A waterbed mattress is often literally undulant. And a field of wheat will undulate or sway in the wind, like the waves of the sea. inundate 1、 To cover with a flood or overflow.
2、 To overwhelm.
🌱As news of the singer's death spread, retailers were inundated with orders for all his old recordings. 🌳In the summer of 1993, record rains in the Midwest caused the Mississippi River to overflow its banks, break through levees, and inundate the entire countryside; such an inundation hadn't been seen for at least a hundred years. By contrast, the Nile River inundated its entire valley every year, bringing the rich black silt that made the valley one of the most fertile places on earth. （The inundations ceased with the completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1970.） Whenever a critical issue is being debated, the White House and Congressional offices are inundated with phone calls and e-mails, just as a town may be inundated with complaints when it starts charging a fee for garbage pickup. redound 1、 To have an effect for good or bad.
2、 To rebound or reflect.
🌱Each new military victory redounded to the glory of the king, whose brilliance as a leader was now praised and feared throughout Europe. 🌳Redound has had a confusing history. Its original meaning was simply "overflow." But since the prefix re- often means "back," the later meaning "result" may have arisen because flowing back—on a beach, for example—is a result of the original flowing. Redound has long been confused with other words such as resound and rebound, so today "rebound" is another of its standard meanings. As examples of its usual meaning, we could say that the prohibition of alcohol in 1919 redounded unintentionally to the benefit of gangsters such as Al Capone—and that Capone's jailing on tax-evasion charges redounded to the credit of the famous "Untouchables." redundancy 1、 The state of being extra or unnecessary.
2、 Needless repetition.
🌱A certain amount of redundancy can help make a speaker's points clear, but too much can be annoying. 🌳Redundancy, closely related to redound, has stayed close to the original meaning of "overflow" or "more than necessary." Avoiding redundancy is one of the prime rules of good writing. ""In the modern world of today" contains a redundancy; so does "He died of fatal wounds" and "For the mutual benefit of both parties." But redundancy doesn't just occur in language. "Data redundancy" means keeping the same computer data in more than one place as a safety measure, and a backup system in an airplane may provide redundancy, again for the sake of safety.
2、 Wavy in form, outline, or surface.
🌱The man's undulant, sinister movements reminded her of a poisonous snake about to strike. 🌳The surface of a freshly plowed field is undulant. A range of rolling hills could be called undulant, as could the shifting sands of the Sahara. A waterbed mattress is often literally undulant. And a field of wheat will undulate or sway in the wind, like the waves of the sea. inundate 1、 To cover with a flood or overflow.
2、 To overwhelm.
🌱As news of the singer's death spread, retailers were inundated with orders for all his old recordings. 🌳In the summer of 1993, record rains in the Midwest caused the Mississippi River to overflow its banks, break through levees, and inundate the entire countryside; such an inundation hadn't been seen for at least a hundred years. By contrast, the Nile River inundated its entire valley every year, bringing the rich black silt that made the valley one of the most fertile places on earth. （The inundations ceased with the completion of the Aswan High Dam in 1970.） Whenever a critical issue is being debated, the White House and Congressional offices are inundated with phone calls and e-mails, just as a town may be inundated with complaints when it starts charging a fee for garbage pickup. redound 1、 To have an effect for good or bad.
2、 To rebound or reflect.
🌱Each new military victory redounded to the glory of the king, whose brilliance as a leader was now praised and feared throughout Europe. 🌳Redound has had a confusing history. Its original meaning was simply "overflow." But since the prefix re- often means "back," the later meaning "result" may have arisen because flowing back—on a beach, for example—is a result of the original flowing. Redound has long been confused with other words such as resound and rebound, so today "rebound" is another of its standard meanings. As examples of its usual meaning, we could say that the prohibition of alcohol in 1919 redounded unintentionally to the benefit of gangsters such as Al Capone—and that Capone's jailing on tax-evasion charges redounded to the credit of the famous "Untouchables." redundancy 1、 The state of being extra or unnecessary.
2、 Needless repetition.
🌱A certain amount of redundancy can help make a speaker's points clear, but too much can be annoying. 🌳Redundancy, closely related to redound, has stayed close to the original meaning of "overflow" or "more than necessary." Avoiding redundancy is one of the prime rules of good writing. ""In the modern world of today" contains a redundancy; so does "He died of fatal wounds" and "For the mutual benefit of both parties." But redundancy doesn't just occur in language. "Data redundancy" means keeping the same computer data in more than one place as a safety measure, and a backup system in an airplane may provide redundancy, again for the sake of safety.
UND comes into English from the Latin words unda,"wave," and undare,"to rise in waves," "to surge or flood." Undulations are waves or wavelike things or motions, and to undulate is to rise and fall in a wavelike way.🌸