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Learn “Ineluctable

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Ineluctable

adjective/in-ee-LUK-tuh-bul/

Impossible to avoid or escape; certain to happen.

The ineluctable end of the holidays meant packing his school bag again.

Ineluctable = in (not) + eluct (struggle out) — you cannot struggle out of it, so it must happen.

Use 'ineluctable' for something completely unavoidable; a very formal word for 'inevitable'.