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   versatile

   /ˈvəːsətʌɪl/

   adjective

   • 1. able to adapt or be adapted to many different functions or activities: "a versatile sewing machine"
   • 2. changeable; inconstant. archaic

   Word Origin early 17th century (in the sense ‘inconstant, fluctuating’): from French, or from Latin versatilis, from versat- ‘turned about, revolved’, from the verb versare, frequentative of vertere ‘to turn’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. versatilely adverb

   Scrabble Points: 12

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