BharatNotes Vicissitude
noun (usually plural: vicissitudes)Usage in a UPSC answer
A resilient welfare architecture must cushion the poorest households against the vicissitudes of the market, ensuring that a sudden price shock or a failed monsoon does not push the vulnerable into irreversible destitution.
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Word Family
vicissitudes (n pl), vicissitudinous (adj), vicissitudinary (adj, rare)
Root
Latin vicissitudo = change, alternation; from vicissim = by turns; from vicis = a turn, change
Etymology
Early 17th-century English, from French, or from Latin vicissitudo "change, alternation," from vicissim "by turns, in turn," from vicis "a turn, change, alternation."
Memory Hook
Think of the Latin root vicis ('turn, change') seen in 'vice-versa' (the order turned around) - vicissitude is life turning, again and again, by turns of fortune.
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