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peripetia
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Noun peripetia has 1 sense
- peripetia(n = noun.event) peripeteia, peripety - 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" is a kind of surprise
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