It's the Word of the Day podcast for July 24th.

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Panacea, spelled P-A-N-A-C-E-A. Panacea is a noun. A panacea is something that is regarded as a cure-all,

that is something that will make everything about a situation better. Here's the word used.

In a sentence from 1984, 75th anniversary edition by George Orwell by Elif Shafak.

It was a mistake to regard and romanticize information as a panacea for the world's problems.

For they are completely different things, information, knowledge, and wisdom.

Every day we are bombarded with thousands of snippets of information, but there is very little

knowledge and no time to slow down to gain knowledge, much less wisdom. we are bombarded with thousands of snippets of information, but there is very little knowledge

and no time to slow down to gain knowledge, much less wisdom. The maxim, an apple a day,

keeps the doctor away, isn't true, but belief in a miraculous botanical cure for whatever ails

you has existed for millennia and is at the root of the word panacea.

In current use, panacea most often refers to a remedy, medical or otherwise, that inevitably

falls far short of what some claim or hope it can do, but the words Latin and Greek forebears

referred to plants with legit healing properties,

including mints and yaros.

Both the Latin word panacea and its Greek antecedent were applied especially to flowering herbs

of the carrot family used to treat various ailments.

With your word of the day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.

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