varying
Other forms: varyingly
The adjective varying describes something that changes in size, strength, number, or nature, like the varying wind speeds that make it fun to fly a kite.
Varying rhymes with ferrying or burying. You probably know the verb vary, which means "to change or introduce differences." Varying is the adjective form of vary and is used to describe things that change or include different elements. If you vary your diet, for example, that means you eat a wide variety of foods, not the same old thing every day.
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marked by diversity or difference
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In an essay focused on one holiday, Jennifer New chronicles how her attitudes towards family and home have changed throughout the years. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 10 Unit 2's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Where I'm From, Funny in Farsi, Kaffir Boy, Pick One, If You Are What You Eat, Persepolis, poems about parents, Hunger of Memory, Thanksgiving: A Personal History, Time to Assert American Values, Rough Justice, On Civil Disobedience, On Surrender at Bear Paw Mountain, On Women's Right to Vote, Declaration of the Rights of the Child, School's Out for Summer, One Word of Truth, Hope, Despair, and Memory
