Vicissitude

This word my mother found in her book 'The Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy' by I don't know who. It means: A change of circumstances or fortune, typically one that is unwelcome or unpleasant. This was a great word and mum found it right at the most perfect time. I was writing an essay and this word fit right in and was exactly the word i was looking for. In the book this word is used in the following way:

'... he should be ready to shoulder his portion of our financial VICISSITUDES' (page 186).

VICISSITUDES can be used in this was with a subject before 'VICISSITUDES' otherwise it can be used by it's self without the 's' in this way;

'...  his life encounters a VICISSITUDE set in motion with the arrival of an Ace of Diamonds in his mailbox'.

Which is the way I used it in my essay. Hope you now understand the meaning of VICISSITUDE and can use it confidently. If reading my blog was in any way a VICISSITUDE I am sorry and please forgive me.

                                                                                                                                     Maddy x