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Atrophy is a process by which parts of the body, such as muscles and organs, lessen in size or weaken in strength due to internal nerve damage, poor nutrition, or aging.
When someone feels disquiet about a situation, they feel very worried or nervous.
If you exhibit equanimity, you demonstrate a calm mental state—without showing upset or annoyance—when you deal with a difficult situation.
Something that is immutable is always the same and cannot be changed.
If someone is imperturbable, they are always calm and not easily upset or disturbed by any situation, even dangerous ones.
Someone who is irresolute is unable to decide what to do.
An organization or system that is a monolith is extremely large; additionally, it is unwilling or very slow to change or adopt something new.
If an object oscillates, it moves repeatedly from one point to another and then back again; if you oscillate between two moods or attitudes, you keep changing from one to the other.
A salubrious place or area is pleasant, clean, healthy, and comfortable to live in.
A salutary experience is beneficial to you since it strengthens you in some way, although it may be unpleasant as you undergo it; this word also refers to promoting good health.
Stasis is a state of little change over a long period of time, or a condition of inactivity caused by an equal balance of opposing forces.
If you are steadfast, you have a firm belief in your actions or opinions and refuse to give up or change them because you are certain that you are doing the right thing.
Stupor is a state in which someone’s mind and senses are dulled; consequently, they are unable to think clearly or act normally.
If you are unflagging while doing a task, you are untiring when working upon it and do not stop until it is finished.
A thing or person that is unremitting is persistent and enduring in what is being done.
When someone vacillates, they go back and forth about a choice or opinion, unable to make a firm decision.
A vagary is an unpredictable or unexpected change in action or behavior.
Something that is vaporous is not completely formed but foggy and misty; in the same vein, a vaporous idea is insubstantial and vague.
If you waver, you cannot decide between two things because you have serious doubts about which choice is better.
Noun
vertigo
VUR-ti-goh
Context
Maureen was a high diver until the day she experienced the dizziness of vertigo on the platform. While looking down at the pool, she noticed an uneasy spinning feeling and stepped back, sick with vertigo. After a week of rest, she faced the pool again from the platform, but the imbalanced and vertiginous feeling returned, sending her almost reeling into the pool. Her doctor diagnosed her with vertigo or unsteadiness and recommended she retire from diving.
Quiz:Try again!
What is an example of vertigo?
Feeling confused and disoriented when you wake up some place other than your bedroom.
Feeling lightheaded after you have been out in the hot sun all day.
Feeling unstable and like you might fall when you are on the roof of a building.
IGoVertical and Fall Horizontal After I decided to govertical by jumping straight up off a cliff, I contracted vertigo, spun as I fell, and slammed horizontal on my belly 100' below, doing the world's biggest, and most painful, belly flop.
Examples
Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.
— Salman Rushdie, Indian-born British writer
The Navy is interested in the vest as an orientation tool for pilots with vertigo—those who have lost the sense of where their up and their down is.
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Wired
But the new findings now suggest that for folks with BPPV, "taking a supplement of vitamin D and calcium is a simple, low-risk way to prevent vertigo from recurring," he said in a news release from the American Academy of Neurology.
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U.S. News & World Report
After we settle into our guesthouse, a five-minute walk from the ferry, Miller takes me on a tour of Tory to scout its six sea stacks and sea cliffs that end in a formation known as the Anvil, a serrated quartz wall 164 feet high that juts 1,300 feet into the sea. It gives me vertigo just looking at it.
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Outside Magazine
Vertigo Hitchcock's masterpiece features Jimmy Stewart suffering through bouts of vertigo.
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Related Words
atrophy ·
disquiet ·
irresolute ·
oscillate ·
stupor ·
vacillate ·
vagary ·
vaporous ·
waver ·
equanimity ·
immutable ·
imperturbable ·
monolith ·
salubrious ·
salutary ·
stasis ·
steadfast ·
unflagging ·
unremitting ·
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Word Variants
vertiginous
adj
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dizzy; whirling
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