Today’s “Word of the Day” is propitious and it is an adjective meaning “favourable, auspicious, promising, fortunate, optimistic, advantageous, beneficial, hopeful, positive“.
Example Sentence: The run-up to the general election this year is a propitious moment to interrogate the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) coalition’s self-presentation of its rule to the electorate, in whose name it governs… This is what we mean when we say that the NDA seeks a mandate characteristic of an aspiring political hegemon. A political regime can draw sustenance through such a self-perpetuating hegemonic effect even in the absence of widespread popular approval of its political project. The critical condition hinges on the political project’s credibility as representing the ‘only game in town’.
This word is present in Heady electoral rhetoric with a hegemonic ring to it and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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