{"id":52,"date":"2018-07-19T14:14:49","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T13:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/?p=52"},"modified":"2022-04-18T13:42:22","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T12:42:22","slug":"words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>heteroclite: <em>adj:<\/em> abnormal or irregular\u00a0<em>n:<\/em> abnormal thing or person, an irregularly declined word, especially a Greek or Latin noun. (&#8216;clite&#8217; from &#8216;klitos&#8217; &#8212; inflected)<\/p>\n<p>bosky: covered by trees or bushes; wooded.<\/p>\n<p>usufruct: the right to enjoy the use and advantages of another&#8217;s property short of the destruction or waste of its substance.<\/p>\n<p>aphetism: the loss of an initial unstressed vowel in a word, as squire for esquire.<\/p>\n<p>saponified: the chemical reaction that occurs when a vegetable oil or animal fat is mixed with a strong alkali. The products of the reaction are two: soap and glycerin.<\/p>\n<p>doughty: brave and persistent (archaic, humorous).<\/p>\n<p>panegyric: public speech or published text in praise of someone or something.<\/p>\n<p>dithyrambist: a writer or performer of dithyrambs (dithyramb: a wild choral hymn of ancient Greece, especially one dedicated to Dionysus; a passionate or inflated speech, poem, or other writing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>heteroclite: adj: abnormal or irregular\u00a0n: abnormal thing or person, an irregularly declined word, especially a Greek or Latin noun. (&#8216;clite&#8217; from &#8216;klitos&#8217; &#8212; inflected) bosky: covered by trees or bushes; wooded. usufruct: the right to enjoy the use and advantages of another&#8217;s property short of the destruction or waste of its substance. aphetism: the loss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":135,"href":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hughdenman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}