SAT vocabulary

Pandemonic

Wildly chaotic, tumultuous, or marked by noisy uproar and confusion

Example

"Pandemonic scenes erupted on the trading floor as panic spread through the market."

From 'Pandemonium', the high capital of Satan and his peers in John Milton's 'Paradise Lost' (Greek pan- 'all' + daimon 'demon').

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