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Word of the Day (snake-oil)-30MAR20

Word of the Day (snake-oil)-30MAR20

Today’s “Word of the Day” is snake-oil and it is a noun meaning “a fraudulent health product or unproven medicine which, in fact has no healing properties, is falsely promoted or claimed as a remedy/solution”.

Example Sentence: The novel coronavirus, however, has opened up an entirely different problem: the life-endangering consequences of supposed cures, misleading claims, snake-oil sales pitches and conspiracy theories about the outbreak.

This word is present in today’s The Hindu International page article A new wave of the fake news pandemic is born and click here to read it.

Courtesy: The Hindu

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