4.4.2 Trouble

Use this domain for words referring to bad things that happen in life.

OMC Codes:

730 Social Problems

732 Disabilities

Handicapped

733 Alcoholism and Drug Addiction

734 Invalidism

735 Poverty

736 Dependency

737 Old Age Dependency

738 Delinquency

Louw Nida Codes:

22A Trouble, Hardship, Distress

22B Experience Trouble, Hardship

22C Cause Trouble, Hardship

22D Difficult, Hard

22F Easy, Light

What words refer to bad things that happen in life?

trouble, adversity, difficulty, hardship

What types of trouble are there?

be in need, be in pain, be injured, harm, be in distress, suffer persecution, be in danger, social unrest, anarchy

What causes trouble?

war, famine, disaster, accident, sickness, injury, death, conflict, harm, destruction, oppression

4.4.2.1 Problem

Use this domain for words related to problems.

What words refer to a problem?

problem, bind, conundrum, difficulty, dire straits, fix, jam, mess, misfortune, pickle, pinch, plight, predicament, scrape, trouble,

What words refer to solving a problem?

solve, resolve, figure out

4.4.2.2 Danger

Use this domain for words referring to danger--things and events that threaten to inflict damage, pain, or death.

Louw Nida Codes:

21 Danger, Risk, Safe, Save

21A Danger

What words refer to danger?

danger, threat,

What words describe something that is dangerous?

dangerous, threatening, life threatening,

What words describe something that is not dangerous?

safe, harmless, out of harm's way

4.4.2.3 Accident

Use this domain for words related to accidents--something bad that happens without anyone wanting it to happen or doing anything to cause it to happen.

What words refer to an accident?

accident, mishap

What words refer to a big accident?

disaster

What words refer to an accident involving vehicles?

accident, crash, wreck, pile-up, collision

What words refer to having an accident?

have an accident, be involved in an accident, crash

What words describe something that happens in an accident?

accidental

4.4.2.4 Disaster

Use this domain for words related to a disaster.

OMC Codes:

731 Disasters

What general words refer to a disaster?

disaster, catastrophe, tragedy, calamity, crisis, emergency

What words refer to a natural disaster?

natural disaster, 'act of God'

What words describe an event that causes a disaster?

disastrous, catastrophic, tragic

What types of disasters are there?

epidemic (of disease), forest/grass fire, storm, famine, plague (of insects), earthquake, war

4.4.2.5 Separate, alone

Use this domain for words referring to a person being separate or alone.

What words refer to being alone?

be separate, alone, lonely, isolated, hermit, recluse, cloistered, sanctified, singular, bachelor, old maid, orphan, be by yourself, cut off from people, marooned, remote, distant

4.4.2.6 Suffer

Use this domain for words related to suffering--to feel very bad because of something very bad that has happened to you.

What words refer to suffering?

suffer, ache for someone, be afflicted with, agonize, endure, feel horrible, have a hard time, be hurting, be in pain, feel pain, feel rotten, undergo, go through, put up with, be subjected to, be in the grip of, be in the throes of,

What words refer to suffering because of something you have done?

suffer, pay for, pay the penalty for, count the cost, cost someone dearly, stew in your own juice, know to your cost, find out to your cost, at a cost to,

What words refer to the feeling of suffering?

suffering, ache, affliction, agony, distress, misery, pain, torment (n), torture (n),

What words describe someone who suffers?

suffering, tormented,

What words refer to causing someone to suffer?

distress (v), give someone a hard time, hurt, inflict, put someone through, subject to, torment (v), torture (v),

What words refer to something that causes someone to suffer?

adversity, hardship, hell, injury, tormenter, torturer,

What words describe something that causes someone to suffer?

agonizing, distressing, hard, hurtful, painful, tormenting, torturing,

What words describe something that is too painful to accept?

unbearable, unbearably, intolerable, intolerably, unendurable,

What words refer to someone who suffers?

sufferer, casualty, victim,

What words refer to someone who seems to enjoy suffering?

masochist, martyr, be a glutton for punishment,