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Immutable (adj.)
Emily is an immutable vegetarian. no matter how hard we try, we cannot get her to eat meat.
- Unchangeable (im- not + mut changeable)
- Synonyms: permanent, inveterate
- Antonyms: mutable, protean, vacillating, mercurial
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Metamorphosis (n.)
The old house underwent a metamorphosis from a rundown shack into a beautiful cottage.
- A transformation (meta- change + morph form)
- Synonyms: transformation, mutation, transmogrification
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Rupture (v.)
When the vat of smelly liquid ruptured, we picked up our feet to avoid getting the stuff on our shoes.
- To break open (rupt- break)
- Synonyms: burst, fissure, cleave
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Transmute (v.)
Harry Potter was able to transmute a feather into a frog using a spell he learned in incantations class.
- To transform (trans- across + mut change)
- Synonyms: metamorphose, alter, transmogrify
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Amorphus (adj.)
Rather than marching in precise formation, the battalion broke down into an aamorphous mass of chargings soldiers.
- Lacking shape; changeable in form (a- without + morph shape)
- Synonyms: shapeless, nebulous, vague, mondescript
- Antonyms: crystaalline
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Mercurial (adj.)
Molly is the most mercurial person in the office; we can never tell if she'll be the evil Molly or the sympathetic Molly.
- Erratic; subject to wild changes in character (from the speedy god Mercury)
- Synonyms: fickle, capricious, vacillating
- Antonyms: immutable, stable
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Protean (adj.)
He has changed his position on issues so many times that he is considered the most protean member of Congress.
- Capable of assuming different forms (from the form-changing sea god Proteus)
- Synonyms: polymorphous, labile
- Antonyms: immutable, stable
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Mutate (v.)
- To change form (mut- change)
- Synonyms: transform, transmogrify
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Fickle (adj.)
- Likely to change opinion unpredictably
- Synonyms: capricious, vacillating, mercurial
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Fluctuate (v.)
- To vary irregularly (flux flow)
- Synonyms: vacillate, waver
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Vacillate (v.)
- To change one's mind repeatedly
- Synonyms: fluctuate, waver
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Revamp (v.)
- To revise; to renovate (re- again)
- Synonyms: refurbish, renovate
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Amend (v.)
- To improve; to remove the faults of
- Synonyms: rectify, redress, ameliorate, mitigate
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