holocaust
“Holocaust” is a Greek-derived translation of the Hebrew term olah,which denotes a sort of ritual sacrifice in which the food offered iscompletely burnt up rather than being merely dedicated to God and theneaten. It was applied with bitter irony by Jews to the destruction ofmillions of their number in the Nazi death camps. Although phrases like"nuclear holocaust” and “Cambodian holocaust” have become common, yourisk giving serious offense by using the word in less severecircumstances, such as calling a precipitous decline in stock prices a"sell-off holocaust."
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