SAT vocabulary
Cataclysm
A violent disturbance, convulsion, or cataclysmic upheaval.
Example
"The volcanic eruption was a regional cataclysm that submerged entire coastal towns beneath ash."
Etymology
From French cataclysme, via Latin from Greek kataklysmos ('deluge, flood'), from kataklyzein ('to wash over').
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