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); The idea of Nationality, already gaining strength, obtained a<br />

fresh impetus from the French Revolution. — The War and Democracy;<br />

• (momentum)- force or speed of movement; impetus, as of a physical object<br />

or course of events, ( ); Events seemed to have acquired their<br />

own momentum, almost a will of their own. — The Stars Are Also Fire;<br />

• (float)- to move gently on the surface of a liquid; drift along; While the<br />

butterflies float, the mother keeps increasing her rate of acceleration. —<br />

Passage at Arms;<br />

• (waft)- to carry lightly and smoothly through the air or over water, (<br />

); The light wind which blew at the time wafted the<br />

bitter words of her mournful dirge to the spot where her friends were. —<br />

Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 2 (of 3);<br />

• (blow)- to be in a state of motion;<br />

• (flux)- a flowing or flow, ( ; ; );<br />

• continuous change, passage, or movement, ( - ); The<br />

economic order is in flux, and a new one will surely take its place;<br />

• (soar)- to fly upward, as a bird, ( ); Bach soon<br />

began to find Arnstadt too small and narrow for his soaring desires. — The<br />

World's Great Men of Music;<br />

• to rise or aspire to a higher or more exalted level;<br />

• (clamber)- to climb with difficulty, especially on all fours; scramble; And<br />

he began to clamber down the trailing ladders that the Boatmen had dropped<br />

over the side. — The Bane of The Black Sword;<br />

transmit = convey > conveyance<br />

• (transmit)- to send from one person, thing, or place to another; convey;<br />

• (convey)- to take or carry from one place to another; transport; He<br />

informed them that he had no message to convey or suggestions to offer. —<br />

Woodrow Wilson as I know Him;<br />

• (conveyance)- a means of transporting, esp. a vehicle, as a bus, airplane,<br />

or automobile, ( ); At that period there were no railway facilities<br />

worth mentioning, and they had to go by private conveyance--wagon or<br />

carriage or on horseback as the case might be. — Fifty Years of Public Service;<br />

gesticulation : motility<br />

• (gesticulation)- an animated or excited gesture, ( ); They use a good<br />

deal of gesticulation, and are exceedingly animated, saying with their might<br />

what their tongues find to say. — Two Years Before the Mast;<br />

• (motility)- ability to move spontaneously; In the new experiments to more<br />

unequivocally establish the role of somatic motility, the researchers

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