mindmap root((VOLU/VOLV)) voluble Speaking readily and rapidly; talkative.
🌱He proved to be a voluble informer who would tell stories of bookies, smugglers, and hit men to the detectives for hours. 🌳A voluble person has words "rolling" off his or her tongue. In O. Henry's famous story "The Ransom of Red Chief," the kidnappers nab a boy who turns out to be so unbearably voluble that they can hardly wait to turn him loose again. devolve 2、 To gradually go from an advanced state to a less advanced state.
🌱Since 1998, considerable power has been devolving from the British government in London to the new Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh. 🌳With its de- prefix （See DE,） devolution implies moving backward. Once powers have been centralized in a unified government, giving any powers back—that is, devolving the power—to a smaller governmental unit can seem to be reversing a natural development. In a somewhat similar way, a job that your boss doesn't want to do may devolve upon you. But devolve and devolution are also treated nowadays as the opposites of evolve and evolution. So we may also speak of moral devolution, such as occurred in Germany in the 1930s, when a country with an extraordinary culture became a brutal dictatorship. And parents may watch their slacker teenager and wonder if devolution is occurring right in front of their eyes. evolution A process of change from a lower, simpler, or worse state to one that is higher, more complex, or better.
🌱Thomas Jefferson and the other Founding Fathers believed that political evolution reached its highest form in democracy. 🌳Part of the humor of the old Flintstones cartoon show is that it contradicts what is known about biological evolution, since humans actually evolved long after dinosaurs were extinct. Evolution can also be used more broadly to refer to technology, society, and other human creations. For example, an idea may evolve, even in your own mind, as the months or years pass. And though many people don't believe that human beings truly become better with the passing centuries, many will argue that our societies tend to evolve, producing more goods and providing more protection for more people. convoluted 1、 Having a pattern of curved windings.
2、 Involved, intricate.
🌱After 10 minutes, Mr. Collins's strange story had become so convoluted that none of us could follow it. 🌳Convolution originally meant a complex winding pattern such as those visible on the surface of the brain. So a convoluted argument or a convoluted explanation is one that winds this way and that. An official document may have to wind its way through a convoluted process and be stamped by eight people before being approved. Convoluted language makes many people suspicious; as a great philosopher once said, "Anything that can be said can be said clearly."