Today’s “Word of the Day” is “repercussion“ and it is a noun meaning “consequence, result, effect, outcome, reverberation, fallout”.
Example Sentence: The full repercussions of this disaster are only beginning to be felt. Hundreds of thousands of people are already internally displaced. Many have fled to Kabul. If the capital falls, waves of frightened, dispossessed and hungry people could surge into Pakistan, Iran and the central Asian republics from a country the United Nations warns is “spinning out of control”.
This word is present in The Guardian article The Observer view on the fall of Afghanistan and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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