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English Dictionary: peripetia by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
peripetia
n
  1. a sudden and unexpected change of fortune or reverse of circumstances (especially in a literary work); "a peripeteia swiftly turns a routine sequence of events into a story worth telling"
    Synonym(s): peripeteia, peripetia, peripety
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