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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--jounce This week's theme: blend words. jounce (jouns) verb tr., intr. To bounce along. noun A jolting movement. [Of uncertain origin, apparently a blend of joll (to knock or bump) and bounce.] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (garg wordsmith.org) "We jounced along the rutted, rock-strewn roads in the rural bush of Ethiopia to the man's hut, which was shaped like a beehive." Hope Anderson Brumbach; Into Africa; Daily News (Longview, Washington); Oct 14, 2006. X-Bonus O Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name! -Jeanne-Marie Roland, revolutionary (1754-1793)

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