How to pronounce “atavistic” in English

She pulled down her leggings and peed.There was an atavistic relief to this, and her eyes watered from the pleasure.The end of the world couldn't take this tiny joy away from her.

are going to have to add vertebrae.We have gone in and found the atavistic gene.We can get it to produce about 14 vertebrae, which is sort of an ancestral state, but is

And they left the babies home with grandma.And so I think there is in us a kind of atavistic, granular need to help raise the babies.When we don't, we hurt.

burning, so I was wondering if you had any suggestions there.Yet, somehow we feel this atavistic desire to gather in large groups and run for two to five hours. So, my speculation -- it's not fact; it's

And I keep trying to tell the sixth graders, it's a dinosaur, and they just say it's not cool enough looking.So to make a cool bird into a cool dinosaur, what we're doing now is looking for atavistic genes.In other words, ancestral genes that the birds might still be carrying that are just turned off, right?