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Armageddon (ahr" muh GED'n) (noun)
1. In the Bible (Revelation 16:16); the scene of a final battle between the forces of good and evil, prophesied to occur at the end of the world: Armageddon represents the location of the final cosmic battle of the forces of good and of evil.
2. A decisive or catastrophic conflict: Efforts are being made by some to avoid the threat of a nuclear Armageddon.
Armageddon is often used to mean simply an "apocalyptic-scale disaster"; for example, news sites refer to "financial Armageddon", "environmental Armageddon", "Toyota Armageddon", etc., where there is no indication of warring parties.
snowmageddon (snoh" muh GED'n) (noun)
An awesome accumulation of snow: Snowmageddon is a hyperbolic exaggeration referring to the "monstrous" snow storms which took place in parts of the United States in the early days of February, 2010.
Mid-Atlantic residents in the U.S. were buried by a likely record-setting blizzard which President Obama jokingly labeled Snowmageddon as well as those who were brave enough to try to clear a path through the wet, heavy mounds, of thigh-high snow.
The Farmers’ Almanac predicted an Armageddon of rain and winds during the summer and a repeat of the snowmageddon which we experienced two winters ago.
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Confusing Words Clarified: Group A; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
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