WORD OF THE DAY
To jounce is to move up and down suddenly, the way you jounce around in the back seat of your brother's old car as he drives along a rutted dirt road.
When you jounce, you bounce abruptly. You may love to jounce down a frozen hill on an old plastic sled, while your best friend prefers the relative comfort of a huge, inflatable tube. Jounce is also a noun: "That last jounce knocked my teeth together." This word is probably a combination of bounce and jump or jolt, and we've been using it since the mid-15th century.
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