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panacea Educational reform is sometimes viewed as the panacea for all of society's problems. ˌpænəˈsiə

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A remedy for all ills or difficulties; cure-all. Panacea comes from a Greek word meaning “all-healing,” and Panacea was the goddess of healing. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, alchemists who sought to concoct the “elixir of life” (which would give eternal life) and the “philosopher's stone” (which would turn ordinary metals into gold) also labored to find the panacea. But no such medicine was ever found, just as no solution to all of a society's difficulties has ever been found. Thus, panacea is almost always used to criticize the very idea of a total solution (“There's no panacea for the current problems plaguing Wall Street”).

word	panacea
definition	A remedy for all ills or difficulties; cure-all.
eg_sentence	Educational reform is sometimes viewed as the panacea for all of society's problems.
explanation	Panacea comes from a Greek word meaning “all-healing,” and Panacea was the goddess of healing. In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, alchemists who sought to concoct the “elixir of life” (which would give eternal life) and the “philosopher's stone” (which would turn ordinary metals into gold) also labored to find the panacea. But no such medicine was ever found, just as no solution to all of a society's difficulties has ever been found. Thus, panacea is almost always used to criticize the very idea of a total solution (“There's no panacea for the current problems plaguing Wall Street”).
IPA	ˌpænəˈsiə

Panacea Society's Solution Remedy Ills Difficulties Cure All Educational