One CP from each element on the card is always required, even in situations where an effect has reduced the cost to 1
Chuckling, giggling, guffawing, snickering, chortling, tittering, shrieking, cackling, sniggering, snorting, smirking, roaring, crowing, howling, cachinnating, screaming, whooping, convulsing, and "yuk-ing it up" all count
Yes, a creature can adapt again if it no longer has any +1/+1 counters on it , regardless of whether it already adapted earlier that game or not
White Realmbreaker's Grasp Alabaster Host Intercessor Knight of the New Coalition Sigiled Sentinel Alabaster Host Sanctifier Blue Preening Champion Meeting of Minds Order of the Mirror // Order of the Alabaster Host Ephara's Dispersal Temporal Cleansing Black Deadly Derision Final Flourish Vanquish the Weak Aetherblade Agent // Gitaxian Mindstringer Nezumi Informant Red Volcanic Spite Ral's Reinforcements Pyretic Prankster // Glistening Goremonger Shatter the Source Thrashing Frontliner Green Cosmic Hunger Overgrown Pest Portent Tracker War Historian Timberland Ancient If you're not sure which card to choose in a draft, how other players started filling their decks can be a good way to test out how everyone else is learning the latest tricks