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vicissitudenoun a negative event or circumstance that is common to a particular setting or situation and is usually beyond one's controlThe vicissitudes of medical school proved too much for the anxious student. adversity, affliction, asperity, misadventure, mischance, misfortune, mishap, privation, tragedy, tribulation, trouble, woecross, crucible, fire, gauntlet(also gantlet), ordeal, trialbaptism, initiationacid test, litmus testchallenge, complication, difficulty, grief, grievance, hardship, rigorannoyance, discomfort, inconvenience, nuisance ca. 1576 |