Words4Nerds #14

by Peter Saint-Andre

2002-11-22

This week's words all relate to movement (yes, I was traveling this week):

• peripatetic -- given to walking around; also used to describe the philosophy of Aristotle, who reputedly walked the grounds of the Lyceum as he taught
• peregrination -- traveling or wandering
• perambulate -- to walk through or about
• hie -- to hurry or hasten
• gad -- to wander aimlessly, or to rove in pursuit of pleasure or social interaction (familiar from the term 'gadabout')

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