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What do the words containing the root -var- in the following sentences mean?
The Ed Sullivan Show was an early example of a television variety show.
The route the bus takes between Maple Street and City Hall never varies.
My Fair Lady is a variation on the Pygmalion theme.
Nurse Bennett's caring manner is invariable.
The colors in that variegated embroidery thread go from yellow to red.
The Latin word varius means "diverse" or "having differences." The root in the examples in the preceding sentences is -var-. Variegated thread, for example, varies in color, changing from one color to the next for the length of the thread. Invariable combines the negative prefix in- with the root -var- to give us "unchanging."
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