新gre詞匯volatile

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volatile: 不穩(wěn)定的; easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
    1) evaporating easily; explosive, changeable
    2) 1. a. tending to vary often or widely, as in price 
    b. inconstant; fickle
    c. lighthearted; flighty
    d. ephemeral; fleeting
    2. tending to violence; explosive
    3) changeable; explosive; evaporation rapidly
    4) readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fick; explosive
    5) easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
    * n. volatility
    instable : volatility :: harmonious : congruence
    craven : heroic :: volatile : constant (OPPOSITE)
    volatile : temper :: ready : wit
    volatile : evaporate :: soluble : dissolve
    volatile <> constant, stable
    imperturbability ↔ volatility
    Fearing the substitute teacher’s volatile temper, the children were quiet and obedient.
    Syn: volatility, gaseous; capricious, unstable,capricious, erratic, fickle, inconsistent, inconstant, mercurial, temperamental
    His volatile personality made it difficult to predict his reaction to anything.
    多變的: characterized by or subject to rapid or unexpected change
    【例】a boss of volatile moods 一個性情多變的老板‖The stock market can be very volatile. 股 市瞬息萬變。
    【近】 capricious, changeable, fluid, inconstant, mercurial, skittish, temperamental, variable, versatile
    【反】 certain, changeless, constant, immutable, invariable, settled, stable, stationary, steady, unchangeable, unvarying 固定的,不變的
    【派】 volatility n. 易變性,易揮發(fā)性