Associations to the word «Peripety»
Wiktionary
PERIPETY, noun. Alternative form of peripeteia
Dictionary definition
PERIPETY, noun. 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".
Wise words
Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry
and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.