Today’s “Word of the Day” is “emphatic” and it is an adjective meaning “certain, clear, decided, firm, determined, assertive, insistent, outright, one hundred per cent, categorical, unequivocal, unambiguous”.
Example Sentence: The revelation that researchers had succeeded in creating a nuclear fusion reaction that generated more energy than it consumed made reassuring reading last week… This input is to be welcomed but we should be emphatic: (nuclear) fusion will not arrive in time to save the planet from climate change. Electricity plants powered by renewable sources or nuclear fission offer the only short-term alternatives to those that burn fossil fuels. We need to pin our hopes on these power sources. Fusion may earn its place later in the century but it would be highly irresponsible to rely on an energy source that will take at least a further two decades to materialise – at best.
This word is present in The Guardian article Despite the hype, we shouldn’t bank on nuclear fusion to save the world from climate catastrophe and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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