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   cataclysm

   /ˈkatəklɪz(ə)m/

   noun

   • 1. a large-scale and violent event in the natural world: "the cataclysm at the end of the Cretaceous Period"
   • ▪ a sudden violent political or social upheaval: "the cataclysm of the First World War"

   Word Origin early 17th century (originally denoting the biblical Flood described in Genesis): from French cataclysme, via Latin from Greek kataklusmos ‘deluge’, from kata- ‘down’ + kluzein ‘to wash’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. cataclysmal adjective

   Scrabble Points: 18

   • C

     3

   • A

     1

   • T

     1

   • A

     1

   • C

     3

   • L

     1

   • Y

     4

   • S

     1

   • M

     3

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