jumble noun (OLD THINGS) [ U ] UK. things you no longer want that are sold at a jumble sale. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Rubbish and waste.
You can call the mix of items itself a jumble too. In the early 1500s, jumble meant "to move confusedly," and it was probably modeled on stumble. Later that century, it came to mean "mix or confuse." "Jumble." Vocabulary.com Dictionary, Vocabulary.com, https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/jumble.
Jumble is a word puzzle with a clue, a drawing illustrating the clue, and a set of words, each of which is “jumbled” by scrambling its letters. A solver reconstructs the words, and then arranges letters at marked positions in the words to spell the answer phrase to the clue.
The shoreline was made up of a jumble of huge boulders. He's making a new film by jumbling together bits of his other movies. His thoughts jumbled and raced like children fighting. They had jumbled it all up into a heap.
Jumble Stories is a very fun creative writing activity. Students use a number coding system to choose the major parts of their story- character, setting, and problem. The combinations and possibilities are endless! It is exciting to see what funny story elements can be used to write a fabulous story.
Many anxious and overly stressed people experience mixing up their words when speaking. Because this is just another symptom of anxiety and/or stress, it needn't be a need for concern. Mixing up words is not an indication of a serious mental issue. Again, it's just another symptom of anxiety and/or stress.
having no intelligible meaning. “a nonsensical jumble of words” synonyms: nonsense meaningless, nonmeaningful. having no meaning or direction or purpose.
Tip 1: Look for prefixes or suffixes such as “RE” or “ING”. These can help you extend other words. Tip 2: Try to find letters that often go together in words like “BR” or “TH”. Tip 3: Move the vowels and consonants apart.
What is it called when your brain can read jumbled words?
The word-scrambling phenomenon has a punny name: typoglycemia, playing with typo and glycemia (the condition of having low blood sugar). Typoglycemia can refer to to the phenomenon in which words can be read despite being jumbles, or it can refer to the ability to read such texts.
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phrase [VERB inflects] If you let a person stew or if you leave them to stew, you deliberately allow them to worry about something for a while, rather than telling them something which would make them feel better.
C1. unpleasant, unkind, cruel, or more severe than is necessary: harsh criticism. The children had had a harsh upbringing. We thought the punishment was rather harsh for such a minor offense.
slang. used to say that something is extremely good or useful, or exactly what is needed in a situation: I found five dollars in my pocket. That was so damn clutch.
