Motley
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Comprising greatly varied elements, to the point of incongruity; heterogeneous Having many colours; variegated
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A jester's multicoloured clothes An incongruous mixture
Example sentence: Our country, the United States of America, may be the world's largest economy and the world's only superpower, but we stretch ourselves dangerously thin by taking on commitments like Iraq with only a motley band of allies to share the burden.
Variegate
Part of speech: verb
Definition: to add variety to something; to diversifyto change the appearance of something, especially by covering with patches or streaks of different colourto dabble
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: variegated