ADVERSITY: The Wednesday Word #WednesdayWisdom

ADVERSITY: The Wednesday Word #WednesdayWisdom This week’s Wednesday Word, Adversity is a noun. ADVERSITY DEFINITION: : difficulties; misfortune; as in “resilience in the face of adversity” : a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune ADVERSITY ETYMOLOGY: Middle English: from Old French adversite, from Latin adversitas, from advertere ‘turn towards’. FROM Vacabulary.com:  “When Read More …

PROGRESSION: The Wednesday Word #WednesdayWisdom

PROGRESSION: The Wednesday Word #WednesdayWisdom noun DEFINITION: the process of developing or moving gradually towards a more advanced state. a succession; a series. ETYMOLOGY: “forward walk” late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin progressio(n- ), from the verb progredi (see progress). PROGRESS – late Middle English (as a noun): from Latin progressus ‘an advance’, Read More …