Today’s “Word of the Day” is “vegetate” and it is a verb meaning “to spend time unchallengingly; do nothing, idle, be lazy, be inactive, languish, laze about, lounge around, hang around, kill time.
Example Sentence: It is now official. The Government of India (GOI) painfully admitted recently to what some of us already knew. Fewer and fewer All India Services (AIS) officers working in States were coming forward to opt for a tenure with the Centre. An overwhelming majority would like to be in the comfort zone of their State cadres and vegetate there rather than migrate — albeit even for one short spell of three to five years — to the country’s capital and its neighbourhood to work for the Union Government.
This word is present in The Hindu article The Centre vs State tussle over IAS postings and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Hindu
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