Today’s “Word of the Day” is kleptomania and it is a noun meaning “an irresistible urge/desire to steal something without any need for it (for example, a habit of stealing miniature shampoo bottles/TV remote batteries or etc. from hotel rooms)”.
Example Sentence: Putin emerges from a deluge (great number) of recent biographers as a primeval (an instinctive) Russian nationalist, steeped (filled with) in the politics of oligarchy (a country controlled by a small group of people), kleptomania and violence. But his strategic outlook is not complicated. It is rooted in traditional Russian pride and paranoia (disbelief). He has no desire to conquer Europe, much as the west’s defence lobby (campaign), bruised (hurt) by Iraq and Afghanistan, may long to believe otherwise.
This word is present in The Guardian article Britain should stay well out of Russia’s border dispute with Ukraine and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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