serendipity
Day 11Level 3ser-uhn-DIP-i-tee
accidental discovery
fortunate coincidence; unsought discovery
Part of Speech: noun
Synonyms:
fluke
Example Sentence:
It was chemical serendipity of billion-dollar proportions: a tanning drug with all the right side effects.
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