Now, let’s test your English. What does the word "vicissitude" mean?

Great, you answered "Offensively loud".

See here what other people have answered:

  • Stubbornly resistant to authority
  • Offensively loud
  • To spread negative information
  • An unwelcome change of circumstances or fortune
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Interesting fact:

To make things particularly complicated, there are nine different ways of pronouncing “ough” in the English language. The following sentence contains all of them: “A rough-coated, dough-faced, thoughtful ploughman strode through the streets of Scarborough; after falling into a slough, he coughed and hiccoughed.”

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