This week, we bring you a word that is a noun and is used as an adjective.
Quicksilver is mercury in liquid form. Due to mercury’s reputation for being volatile, this has made it useful to describe something that changes suddenly and quickly.
Examples on how ‘quicksilver‘ is used as an adjective in sentences:
- The politician saw this state as a quicksilver territory as the voters’ sentiments change over events that are played out at a national level.
- At one time, social media companies were considered quicksilver entities rather than institutions building legacies.
- In private, his quicksilver manner can charm colleagues or just as quickly destroy them.
- The boxer’s knock-out fights were legendary, especially his quicksilver movements near the ropes.
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