Today’s “Word of the Day” is buffet and it is a verb meaning “(of difficult situations) afflict, trouble, burden, bother, beset someone repeatedly over a long period of time“.
Example Sentence: Lebanon is regularly buffeted by skirmishing (fighting) between Israeli forces and the Islamist militia. No surprise, then, that many in Beirut initially assumed Tuesday’s explosion was caused by an Israeli air strike.
This word is present in The The Guardian article Global power games could blow the whole Middle East apart and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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