Pulsate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To expand and contract rhythmically; to throb or to beat. To quiver, vibrate, thrill. To produce a recurring increase and decrease of some quantity.
Pulse
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Any annual legume yielding from 1 to 12 grains or seeds of variable size, shape and colour within a pod, and used as food for humans or animals.A normally regular beat felt when arteries are depressed, caused by the pumping action of the heart.A beat or throb.The beat or tactus of a piece of music.
Example sentence: In the year and a half that I've been sober, in the comfort of married life, Vogue and I have welcomed our first son and become a family of our own. We are busy, happy, and doing well. My finger is on the pulse and things I never bothered to try to understand make sense to me now.