Vocabulary : Stride to Strife

Stride : To walk with long steps, especially in a measured or pompous manner. ;; To stand with the legs wide apart; to straddle. ;; To pass over at a step; to step over. ;; To straddle; to bestride. ;; The act of stridding; a long step; the space measured by a long step; as, a masculine stride.
Strident : Characterized by harshness; grating; shrill.
Striding : of Stride
Stridor : A harsh, shrill, or creaking noise.
Stridulate : To make a shrill, creaking noise ;; to make a shrill or musical sound, such as is made by the males of many insects.
Stridulation : The act of stridulating. ;; The act of making shrill sounds or musical notes by rubbing together certain hard parts, as is done by the males of many insects, especially by Orthoptera, such as crickets, grasshoppers, and locusts. ;; The noise itself.
Stridulator : That which stridulates.
Stridulatory : Stridulous; able to stridulate; used in stridulating; adapted for stridulation.
Stridulous : Making a shrill, creaking sound.
Strife : The act of striving; earnest endeavor. ;; Exertion or contention for superiority; contest of emulation, either by intellectual or physical efforts. ;; Altercation; violent contention; fight; battle. ;; That which is contended against; occasion of contest.
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