Dictionary Check: vicissitude
"vicissitude" is a valid word!
Scrabble
17
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Words with Friends
20
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Definition
noun
a variation in circumstances or fortune at different times in your life or in the development of something
Example:
"the project was subject to the usual vicissitudes of exploratory research"
noun
mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
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