Today’s “Word of the Day” is “paraphernalia“ and it is a noun meaning “a group of apparatus, equipment or things used for a particular activity; miscellaneous articles, set of objects; trappings, accessories, (personal) belongings”.
Example Sentence: Today, the world has a whole spectrum of groups – from the European Union at one end to the African Union at the other – with varying shades of cooperation…Many of them do not have regional, ideological or thematic homogeneity to lend them a reason for forming a group. The time, the money and the energy spent on convening not only summits but also a whole paraphernalia of ministerial, official and expert level meetings do not seem justified.
This word is present in The Hindu article An alphabet soup New Delhi needs to sift through and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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