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Penguin Dictionary of American English Usage and Style_4

Tham khảo tài liệu 'penguin dictionary of american english usage and style_4', ngoại ngữ, anh ngữ phổ thông phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 140 fortunate that state that if we provide treatment for infants and children we must provide for their education if they are hospitalized for long periods of time E----said. The administrator was mixed up and the reporter probably was too. They may have confused fortuitous with a combination of felicitous meaning apt or appropriate and fortunate meaning lucky. Either word would have been a better choice than fortuitous. That which is fortuitous may be interpreted as appropriate or inappropriate lucky or unlucky. Natural disasters are fortuitous. Like felicitous it is a four-syllable word beginning with f and ending with -itous. It shares the first five letters of fortunate. Otherwise fortuitous has little in common with the other two adjectives. The Latin equivalents and ancestors of fortuitous and fortunate are fortuitus and fortunatus which in the distant past evidently had a common root in fors chance luck. A book by two scientific writers appears to suggest that accident and uncertainty pervade the universe. The components of such a universe could truly be called fortuitous. In the following example no problem appears up to the second comma. For some people the exceedingly fortuitous arrangement of the physical world which permits the very special conditions necessary to human observers existence confirms their belief in a creative Designer. In this example felicitous would itself be more felicitous than fortuitous. Fortunate also would pass muster. A similar problem appears in another book by a traveler telling about car trouble in Africa. Within a few moments the engine fired. The mechanic danced a few steps and doffed his hat just as the boy on the bicycle returned holding up a tube triumphantly. Never had so many fortuitous omens graced us at once. This time fortuitous would well be replaced by favorable. An adverb related to fortuitous is fortuitously. A related noun is fortuitousness. FORTUNATE. See FORTUITOUS. FORTUNE. See DESTINY. FORWARD and BACK .