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: http://visualthesaurus.com/?w1=jounce

-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.

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