Puls - Word Root - Membean

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puls

pushed

Usage

• compulsion

  If you feel a compulsion to do something, you feel like you must do it.

• impulsive

  Someone who is impulsive tends to do things without thinking about them ahead of time; therefore, their actions can be unpredictable.

• repulsive

  Something that is repulsive is offensive, highly unpleasant, or just plain disgusting.

• compulsive

  caused by or suggestive of psychological compulsion

• compulsory

  required by rule

• expulsion

  the act of forcing out someone or something

• impulse

  an instinctive motive

• impulsion

  a force that moves something along

• impulsively

  in an impulsive or impetuous way

• impulsiveness

  the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection

• propulsion

  a propelling force

• propulsive

  having the power to propel

• pulsar

  a degenerate neutron star

• pulsate

  expand and contract rhythmically

• pulsating

  expanding and contracting rhythmically

• pulsation

  (electronics) a sharp transient wave in the normal electrical state (or a series of such transients)

• pulse

  expand and contract rhythmically

• repulse

  force or drive back

• repulsion

  the force by which bodies repel one another

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