Words about words

To swat is to hit something or someone with a quick motion.

You sweep when you use a broom to move dust or dirt around. Usually you sweep something like a floor to get all the dirt off it.

Swept is the past tense of sweep.

lan Swimming is a way of moving when you are in the water, using your arms and legs to push you forwards. There are many different ways of swimming, with names like breaststroke, freestyle, butterfly and the one that most children start with - dog paddle!
You can use the word swim as a noun, as in "I am going for a swim".

Swine is both a singular and plural form, meaning a domestic pig or pigs.

lan Swum is the past tense of swim.

Something is symmetric if it exhibits symmetry, that is if you draw a line down the middle of it, the two sides are mirror images of each other.

You synchronize two or more actions when you do them at exactly the same time. The two women in the photo are practicing synchronized swimming.

People will also synchronize their watches to make sure they will all get to the same event at the same time.

Something is tall if the top of it is much higher up than the top of similar things. The person wearing the scarf on the left of the picture is taller than the other person in the picture. Giraffes and basketball players are tall.

The opposite of tall is short.

You tangle long, thin things together when you twist and entwine them around each other in a chaotic manner. Things that are tangled together are hard to get apart.