Vicissitude (noun)
vis-is-it-ood
A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant.
Early 17th century (in the sense ‘alternation’): from French, or from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim ‘by turns’, from vic- ‘turn, change’.
Example sentences
“He’s felt the sharp vicissitudes of fortune since the court case.”
Meraki (Μεράκι) (Greek) (noun) me-rah-kee To do something with soul, creativity, and love. When someone cooks with meraki, builds with meraki, writes with meraki, they’ve poured themselves into it. Derived…