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Fortuitous, Fortunate

Fortuitous is a chronically misunderstood word. To purists, it most emphatically does not mean "lucky" or "fortunate"; it simply means "by chance." You are fortunate if you win the lottery fortuitously, but you can also get flattened by a truck fortuitously.


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