catastrophe
29 05 2008Nouns
1. (n.) calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy;
- an event resulting in great loss and misfortune;
- “the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity”; “the earthquake was a disaster”;
2. (n.) catastrophe, disaster;
- a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune;
- “lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system”; “his policies were a disaster”;
3. (n.) cataclysm, catastrophe;
- a sudden violent change in the earth’s surface;
tags: gre, sat, word list, word of the day, vocabulary, daily vocabulary, word a day, test preparation, grad school, graduate school, gmat, education, school, english, toefl, study abroad, wordnet


