News Vocabulary: COVID black market surges

Reading is always advisable to improve vocabulary. Either you read a good book, any media text or just a good article, you will acquire the skill of using high-end vocabulary in the right place. Reading newspaper or magazine is one of the best ways to improve your vocabulary. Which is why we bring you these series of vocabulary videos wherein we discuss excerpts extracted from articles that appear in the most popular national and international newspapers and magazines. The excerpt used in the video is extracted from an article that appeared in the newspaper - “The Hindu”. The article talks about how India’s COVID black market of medicines and medical devices is booming. Let’s read and study some vocabulary words and phrases from this excerpt.