{"id":103,"date":"2007-06-03T19:32:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-03T23:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/06\/03\/words-words-words\/"},"modified":"2007-06-03T19:32:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-03T23:32:05","slug":"words-words-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/2007\/06\/03\/words-words-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Words, Words, Words"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mamacita<\/a> posted a list of 100 words<\/a> the editors of the American Heritage\u00ae dictionaries believe all high school graduates should know. She bolded the 2 she had to look up. I am going to bold<\/span> the ones I don’t know (19); italicize<\/span> ones I have heard, but couldn’t use in a sentence (20); and leave plain the ones I am sure I could use correctly in a sentence (61).<\/p>\n

Now that I have marked and counted I feel smarter than I did when I scanned through the list.\u00a0 I am by no means a vocabulary queen, but I no slouch either.\u00a0 Now I have 39 words to learn how to use correctly.<\/p>\n

abjure<\/strong>
\nabrogate<\/strong>
\nabstemious<\/strong>
\nacumen
\nantebellum
\nauspicious
\nbelie<\/em>
\nbellicose<\/span>
\nbowdlerize<\/span>
\nchicanery<\/span>
\nchromosome
\nchurlish <\/em>*seen this one in Shakespeare
\ncircumlocution<\/span>
\ncircumnavigate
\ndeciduous
\ndeleterious<\/span>
\ndiffident<\/span>
\nenervate<\/span>
\nenfranchise
\nepiphany
\nequinox
\neuro<\/span>
\nevanescent<\/span>
\nexpurgate<\/span>
\nfacetious
\nfatuous<\/span>
\nfeckless
\nfiduciary<\/span>
\nfilibuster
\ngamete<\/span>
\ngauche
\ngerrymander<\/span>
\nhegemony<\/span>
\nhemoglobin
\nhomogeneous
\nhubris
\nhypotenuse
\nimpeach
\nincognito
\nincontrovertible
\ninculcate<\/span>
\ninfrastructure
\ninterpolate<\/span>
\nirony
\njejune<\/span>
\nkinetic
\nkowtow
\nlaissez faire
\nlexicon
\nloquacious<\/span><\/p>\n

lugubrious<\/span>
\nmetamorphosis
\nmitosis
\nmoiety<\/span>*seen this one in Shakespeare
\nnanotechnology
\nnihilism
\nnomenclature
\nnonsectarian
\nnotarize
\nobsequious
\noligarchy<\/span>
\nomnipotent
\northography<\/span>
\noxidize
\nparabola<\/span>
\nparadigm
\nparameter
\npecuniary<\/span>
\nphotosynthesis
\nplagiarize
\nplasma
\npolymer
\nprecipitous
\nquasar
\nquotidian<\/span>
\nrecapitulate
\nreciprocal
\nreparation
\nrespiration
\nsanguine
\nsoliloquy
\nsubjugate<\/span>
\nsuffragist
\nsupercilious<\/span>
\ntautology<\/span>
\ntaxonomy
\ntectonic<\/span>
\ntempestuous
\nthermodynamics<\/span>
\ntotalitarian
\nunctuous<\/span>
\nusurp
\nvacuous<\/span>
\nvehement
\nvortex
\nwinnow
\nwrought
\nxenophobe
\nyeoman<\/span>
\nziggurat<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mamacita posted a list of 100 words the editors of the American Heritage\u00ae dictionaries believe all high school graduates should know. She bolded the 2 she had to look up. I am going to bold the ones I don’t know (19); italicize ones I have heard, but couldn’t use in a sentence (20); and leave Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feat-of-knowledge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strathconn.com\/lady\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}