catastrophe (noun)
121tragedy — I noun accident, adversity, affliction, bale, blow, calamity, casualty, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, doom, dreadful event, fatal affair, hardship, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, reverse, sorrow, tragoedia, woe II index adversity, calamity …
122debacle — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. failure; stampede, panic. See revolution, destruction. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. downfall, collapse, fiasco, rout; see catastrophe , disaster , failure 1 . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABU …
123hardship — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. adversity, difficulties; calamity, affliction. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Injury] Syn. misfortune, calamity, accident; see catastrophe , disaster . 2. [Burden] Syn. trial, sorrow, worry, difficulty; see… …
124havoc — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. devastation, destruction, wreckage; disorder, chaos, con fusion; ravagement, vandalism; disaster, catastrophe. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. destruction, devastation, plunder, ruin; see destruction 2 . See… …
125reverse — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. antithesis, converse, opposite; misfortune, setback, comedown, defeat; tail, back (of coin), about face, right about. See opposition. v. t. transpose, invert, evert, turn around; back; revoke, annul,… …
126undoing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. downfall, defeat, ruin, reversal. See failure. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Ruin] Syn. ruination, downfall, doom, reversal, destruction, misfortune, calamity, overthrow, collapse, trouble, grief,… …
127misadventure — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. adversity, ill luck, catastrophe; see misfortune 1 . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. mishap, accident, disaster, miscarriage, misfortune, *screw up, slip, catastrophe, tragedy, calamity. III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An… …
128HISTORY bibliography — General ■ Abun Nasr, Jamil M. History of the Maghrib. 2nd rev. ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. ■ Ajayi, J. F. A, and Michael Crowder. History of West Africa. 2 vols. London: Longman Group, 1971, 1974. ■ Akkache, A. Tacfarinas.… …
