What does calamity mean?

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What does calamity mean?

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Calamity is a noun that is not often used in English because it has such dire connotations that it should not be used lightly.

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The Call of the Wild Vocabulary
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Chapter 5 / Lesson 8
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''Call of the Wild'' by Jack London is about a dog named Buck who lives in California until he is kidnapped and taken to Canada to be used as a sled dog in the gold rush of the 1890s. This lesson defines some of the harder words in the book.


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