Multiple choice general knowledge foreign languages

Jounce...

  1. Medieval contest involving horsemen with lances.

  2. To rip off; swindle.

  3. To move jerkily

  4. A unit of electrical energy.
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Explanation

Jounce means to move jerkily or bounce up and down, like a car on a rough road. The related noun form (jounce) appears in physics as the fourth derivative of position (rate of change of jerk). A joust is a medieval contest, to juice means to swindle, and a joule is an electrical energy unit.

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