GRE vocabulary
calamity
an event causing great damage, loss, or distress
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Common questions
Questions about “calamity”
Calamity (noun) means an event causing great damage, loss, or distress
Here is calamity used in an example sentence: "The flood was a calamity that displaced thousands of families."
Common synonyms for calamity include disaster, catastrophe, misfortune, cataclysm.
Antonyms of calamity include blessing, boon.
Calamity is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.
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