stride
To walk with long confident steps.
stride in a sentence
- The head teacher began to stride across the hall, and everyone fell silent.
- The astronaut began to stride across the platform, taking long, confident steps towards the waiting rocket.
Try an 11+ style question
Verbal reasoning papers often ask about a word like this.
Which word is closest in meaning to stride?
- Acrawl
- Bshuffle
- Cmarch
- Ddawdle
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C: march. The other three mean the opposite of stride.
Which word is most nearly opposite in meaning to stride?
- Amarch
- Bshuffle
- Cpace
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B: shuffle. The other three mean nearly the same as stride.
Words that mean something similar
march, pace
Words that mean the opposite
shuffle, crawl, dawdle
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- surge: A sudden powerful rush forward.
- swift: Moving very quickly.
- tether: To tie an animal or object to something so it cannot move away.
- thrust: To push something suddenly and hard.
- thwart: To stop someone's plan from succeeding.
- toil: To work very hard for a long time.
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