"vicissitude" word for 08.22.05

vicissitude \vih-SIS-ih-tood; -tyood\, noun:
1. Regular change or succession from one thing to another; alternation; mutual succession; interchange.
2. Irregular change; revolution; mutation.
3. A change in condition or fortune; an instance of mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another).

Origina: vicissitude comes from Latin vicissitudo, from vicissim, in turn, probably from vices, changes.
Synonyms: alternation, inconstancy, fluctuation.