Today’s “Word of the Day” is whack-a-mole and it is a noun meaning “a situation in which problems are popping up continuously & randomly (as soon as you solve a problem, another one appears and so on) and all efforts taken to fix them are only producing incomplete or temporary results”.
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Example Sentence: Working from home may reduce time on travelling, but is that really making you more efficient? As power cuts, network errors and hanging systems pop up alternatively like in a game of whack-a-mole, you pine (wish) for the strong arms of the office WiFi to cradle you.
This word is present in The Hindu article Would you rather work from home or an office? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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