Today’s “Word of the Day” is elicit and it is a verb meaning “obtain or get (a reaction/response from someone with some difficulty); bring out, draw out, evoke, extract, extort, bring about, bring forth, call forth”.
Example Sentence: The old saying that victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan holds good for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)’s Karnataka unit… More than two months since the poll results were announced, the BJP is yet to choose the Leader of the Opposition… The BJP high command deputed two central observers to elicit the views of senior leaders, MLAs and MPs on the choice of candidates for the post of the Leader of the Opposition. But though this process was completed about a week ago, the name of the leader for the post is yet to be announced.
This word is present in In Opposition without a leader and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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