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6 lettersPronunciation /vəˈɡɛɚ.i/Part of speech nounSorted aagrvyStarts with VEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an unexpected and inexplicable change in something (in a situation or a person's behavior, etc.)

Word origin

From Italian vagare (“wander”) and/or its source Latin vagārī (“to wander”), from Latin vagus (“wandering”). Later apparently reinterpreted in English as vague + -ery but without changing the spelling. By surface analysis, Latin vag(us) + -ary.

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  • This searching was facilitated by the author's knowledge of the vagaries of Anglo-Indian spelling and the numerous colonial-era transliteration systems used for loanwords from Indian languages.
  • These systems learn the vagaries of language by analyzing enormous amounts of text, including thousands of books, Wikipedia entries and other online documents.
  • to speak in vagaries

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