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Howies vocab 1
Laville vocab test 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| modulate | to adjust |
| protean | readily taking on different forms |
| sporadic | irregular |
| transmute | to change form |
| volatile | subject to variation |
| evolve | to develop slowly |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| inveterate | established |
| malleable | able to be shaped |
| metamorphosis | a transformation |
| perchance | perhaps |
| preposterous | absurd |
| proclivity | an inclination |
| prone | likely to do |
| theoretical | unproven |
| contingent | conditional |
| eventuality | a possibility |
| implausible | unlikely |
| inconceivable | impossible to grasp fully |
| in vain | without success |
| neologism | a new word |
| parlance | a particular manner of speaking |
| patois | a nonstandard dialect |
| polyglot | using several languages |
| vulgar | crude or indecent |
| appellation | a name or title |
| eponym | a person whose name is used to make a word |
| linguistics | study of a language |
| malapropism | a humorous confusion of words |
| annotation | an explanatory note |