This week’s theme
Words from chem lab

This week’s words
precipitate
titrate
crucible
volatile
sublimate

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(VOL-uh-tuhl/tyl)

MEANING:

adjective:
1. Fluctuating widely and unpredictably.
2. Evaporating easily.
3. Explosive.
4. Capable of flying.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin volare (to fly), which also gave us volitant, vole, and volley. Earliest documented use: 1325.

USAGE:

“She decided not to rely on Rhy’s good nature, which was a chancy thing at best. Rhy was hair-triggered, volatile, never predictable.”
Linda Howington; An Independent Wife; Harlequin; 1982.

See more usage examples of volatile in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.

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