{"id":10253,"date":"2018-05-12T11:11:11","date_gmt":"2018-05-12T05:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=10253"},"modified":"2018-05-12T11:11:11","modified_gmt":"2018-05-12T05:41:11","slug":"vocabulary-155","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/vocabulary-155\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">1. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>wily<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong> : skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong> : shrewd, clever, sharp, sharp-witted, astute, canny,<br \/>\n<strong>Antonym\u00a0<\/strong> :naive, guileless<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>:&#8221;his wily opponents&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">2.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>blatant<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: (of bad behaviour) done openly and unashamedly.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: flagrant, glaring, obvious, undisguised,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;blatant lies&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">3.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>picaresque<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures of a rough and dishonest but appealing hero.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: dishonest, dishonorable<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;a picaresque adventure novel&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">4.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>pretentious<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong> : attempting to impress by affecting greater importance or merit than is actually possessed.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong> : affected, ostentatious,<br \/>\n<strong>Antonym<\/strong> : natural, unaffected<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;pretentious art films&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">5. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>palaver<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: prolonged and tedious fuss or discussion.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: bother, commotion, trouble, rigmarole, chatter<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;mucking around with finances and all that palaver&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. wily Meaning : skilled at gaining an advantage, especially deceitfully. Synonym : shrewd, clever, sharp, sharp-witted, astute, canny, Antonym\u00a0 :naive, guileless Sentence:&#8221;his wily opponents&#8221; 2.blatant Meaning: (of bad behaviour) done openly and unashamedly. Synonym: flagrant, glaring, obvious, undisguised, Sentence: &#8220;blatant lies&#8221; 3.picaresque Meaning: relating to an episodic style of fiction dealing with the adventures [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10254,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10253\/revisions\/10254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}