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The word of the day is ‘serpentine’.
The word is an adjective, i.e., it adds more information about the noun or sentence.
No, the word is an adjective. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Winding
2. Sly
3. Of or like a serpent or snake
4. Subtle
1. Hindi – Tedha
2. Spanish – Serpentina
3. French – Serpentin
4. Mandarin – Shé wén shí
1. Mary looked up from the serpentine braid she was crocheting.
2. The Moon’s course is of serpentine form, having a head and tail.
3. Because the road is quite serpentine and winding, some people feel lightheaded when riding on it.
4. The stake was made in a serpentine fashion.
5. It consisted of a restaurant area and a large serpentine shaped bar.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
artful, circuitous, convoluted,curved, meandering, sinuous, twisting, anfractuous, cagey, clever, coiling, crafty, cunning, curvy, foxy, indirect, mazy, meandrous, shrewd, slick, slinky, snakelike, snaky, subtle, supple, twisting and turning, wily, tortuous, flexuous etc.
straight, linear, interimly, openly, meteorically, meteorically, importunately, momentarily, as easy as beans, precipitously, straightforwardly, facile
Quotation:
Getting to Valle Nevado is half the fun. A serpentine road from Santiago wriggles up the spine of Andean peak for an hour, then traverses a valley and finally up again. The hotel is perched on a rugged mountain crag at 3,000m: no other sign of human development is visible from this spot, which is close to the Argentinean border.
Jonathan Franklin
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