Words at Play : Top 10 Words for Useful & Intriguing Concepts
#6: Sisyphean
Definition:
requiring continual and often ineffective effort
Example:
"Analysis: Greece's Sisyphean task to replace debt with growth" – Reuter's headline, October 3, 2011
About the Word:
According to Greco-Roman mythology, after King Sisyphus died he was condemned to an eternity in Hades straining to roll a heavy stone up a hill only to watch it roll back down again each time.
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