Word of the Day (botch)-25NOV22

Word of the Day (botch)-25NOV22

Today’s “Word of the Day” is botch and it is a verb meaning “to perform a task carelessly & awkwardly; to work clumsily; mishandle, mismanage, bungle, do badly, mess up/screw up”.

Example Sentence: Instead, schools were left high and dry, lacking the resources to make up for lost learning and to support the children most troubled by the disruption. Even the (UK) national tutoring programme (NTP) was botched first time round, with the contract given to a private company that could not deliver. Other research, including from Ofsted, has shown that very young children were among the worst affected by the pandemic, with increased social and emotional difficulties and delays.

Word of the Day (botch)-25NOV22

This word is present in The Guardian article The Guardian view on the pandemic’s educational impact: make good learning losses and click here to read it.

Courtesy: The Guardian

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