alternating
Alternating is a fancy word for the concept of taking turns. When you have alternating serves in a ping pong match, it means you go and then your friend goes and then it's you again.
Anything that alternates can be described as alternating. An easy way to remember the meaning of alternating to think of the alter inside it: to alter means "to change," so if something is alternating, it is always changing. The seasons of the year are alternating, and so are the outfits in your closet.
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occurring by turns; first one and then the other
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(of a current) reversing direction“alternating current”antonyms:direct(of a current) flowing in one direction only
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After seeing a weasel for the first time, Annie Dillard tries to put herself in the animal's mind: what would it be like to live by necessity, rather than by choice, as humans do? This essay attempts to make sense of the life of a weasel and to use it to inform our own lives as human beings.
This vocabulary list features words with the Latin root alter, meaning "one of two, other of the two, another."
In a dystopian future a young girl is forced to fight for her life and the life of her family in Suzanne Collins's hugely successful book series. When you finish this list, move on to the Chapter 8 words.