Saturday, June 7, 2014

Vocabulary - Panacea

Panacea
noun

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meaning: 
1. hypothetical remedy for all illness and disease. 

Synonyms: 
1. All in one solution 

2. Silver bullet solution

Sample usage:
1. The product hailed as be the panacea for all knee injuries & ailment, proved to be wrong.

2. Rainwater harvesting proved to be a panacea for city's water problem.

3. Experts reject privatization as the panacea for turning loss making divisions to profitable ones.

4. Education hailed as the panacea for all problems, has succeeded to greater extent.

5. AAP neither panacea nor phantom. (This means, the party can't be portrayed as the perfect solution to the problems of the country, if voted to power; nor it cant be discarded as a trivial initiative.)


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