Thursday, December 3, 2009

Word of the Day - December

Vicissitude [vih-SIS-i-tood]
- noun
1. A change or variation occuring in the course of something.
2. Interchange or alternation, as of states or things.
3. Vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases, or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.
4. regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.
5. The quality of being changeable; mutability

* Interesting word, where the plural form of the word has negative connotations.

By Language Evaluator Terry Teza, CC

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