Today’s “Word of the Day” is “knee-jerk” and it is an adjective meaning “automatic, instinctive, involuntary, mechanic, mechanical, spontaneous, hasty, unconscious, unthinking, unintentional, unplanned, unprepared”.
Example Sentence: The recent floods in Bengaluru have paralysed the city’s tech spine (backbone). The point has been driven home with viral images of some of the city’s most influential people being rescued by tractor and lavish villas under water… These events are usually met with a slew (large number) of knee-jerk reactions and politically motivated accusations.
This word is present in The Hindu article Calamity-prone — urban India’s worrying storyline and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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