Saturday, July 16, 2005

Words to live by....

Quite often we experience events in our lives that require accurate words to represent them. You wouldn't want to incorrectly describe a simple mishap as a calamity, would you? For this reason, I give you Degrees of Incident (in increasing gradations of concern):

  • disappointment
  • mishap
  • quandary
  • hullabaloo
  • predicament
  • dilemma
  • brouhaha
  • calamity
  • debacle
  • fiasco
  • maelstrom
  • tragedy
  • catastrophe
  • disaster

Thanks to Ernest for inspiration

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