Today’s “Word of the Day” is drudgery and it is a noun meaning “hard work, toiling, hard labour, tedious task; hard (boring) work, hard (dull) work, fatiguing work, tiresome toiling, menial labour”.
Example Sentence: Often described in media reports as “hooch tragedies” or “spurious liquor cases”, the recurring incidents of illicit alcohol poisoning across India — most recently near Amritsar, Punjab, which claimed at least 23 lives — follow a grimly familiar pattern of poverty, greed, and regulatory failure. Each tragedy is eerily similar to the previous one, be it in terms of the socio-economic profile of the victims or the motivation of the perpetrators. The victims are typically poor, daily wage earners, seeking respite from the harsh realities of everyday drudgery. They are drawn by the lure of cheap alcohol,…
This word is present in Drinking to death: On illicit liquor cases and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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