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chapter 79 vocab
Term | Definition |
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metamorphosis | a complete transformation in appearance, character, or function |
capricious | fright or sudden start; unpredictable, impulsive or subject to whim |
violatile | derives from chemistry/violate chemicals evaporate readily at normal temperature/also means fickle or inconstant |
mutable | prone to frequent change, describe people as well as things |
fluctable | to change in a very specific way; to flow |
labile | forgetful, means constantly changing or unstable |
erratic | to wander, to connotes lacking consistency |
vacillate | to swing in decisively from one idea or action to another |
quicksilver | changing its nature rapidly |
equivocate | to make a statement with one or more possible interpretation, often misleading |