WordMap Version 2.0 - HigherStudyAbroad

hap = kismet : vicissitude : checkered {like checkerboard} : incidental :
adventitious > advent
• (hap)- an occurrence, happening, or accident; In this poem Hap, Thomas
Hardy objects to the part chance plays in our lives;
• (kismet)- fate; destin, ( ; ; ); It is your kismet, your
destiny, good woman. — The Pacha of Many Tales;
• (vicissitude)- change; mutation; mutability, ( ; ); If there
were not such variety and vicissitude, how should the evenness and
constancy of the spirit be known? — The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning;
• (checkered)- marked by numerous and various shifts or changes; variegated;
The land is checkered, the straight lines and even shapes pointing to
agriculture. — NASA Earth Observatory;
• (incidental)- happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate
conjunction with something else, ( ; ;
); His heroism is incidental, the commonplace impulse of the moment.
— The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker;
• (adventitious)- acidental, causal, associated with something by chance
rather than as an integral part; extrinsic, ( , , ,
); His reaction will be personal and adventitious, and he will miss the
artist's real inspiration and ignore his genuine successes. — The Life of Reason;
• (advent)- a coming into place, view, or being; arrival; Instead of bringing
peace his advent was about to open war. — Abraham Lincoln, A History,
Volume 2;