Catastrophe ( page 97 ).
Questions.
1. What is a catastrophe or cataclysm? 2. Is a catastrophe also necessarily a calamity or a disaster? 3. Which word has the broader meaning, disaster or calamity? 4. Does misfortune suggest as serious a condition as any of the foregoing? 5. How does a mishap compare with a catastrophe, a calamity, or a disaster? 6. Give some chief antonyms of the above.
Examples.
War and pestilence are properly ——, while the loss of a battle may be a ——, but not a ——.
Fortune is not satisfied with inflicting one ——.
Well had the boding tremblers learned to trace
The day's —— in his morning face.
The failure of the crops of two successive years proved an irreparable —— to the emigrants.