Pronounced: CORE-uh-skate, verb
Notes: I happened to run across this word in reading
Yesterday’s word
The word peripeteia is “a sudden or unexpected change of fortune (especially in a literary work)
First usage
Our word came into English in the late 1500s
Background / Comments
I was thinking that this word had something about walking around, but I was quite far along. Our word came from the Greek word peripiptein (to change suddenly), which comes from peri- (near; around) and piptein (to fall).
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