{"id":11164,"date":"2018-08-03T10:59:21","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T05:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=11164"},"modified":"2018-08-03T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T05:29:21","slug":"vocabulary-221","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/vocabulary-221\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">1.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Biennial<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: taking place every other year, an event celebrated or taking place every two years<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;the top antiques fairs are the Milan and Florence biennials&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">2.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Kingpin<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: a person or thing that is essential to the success of an organization or operation.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: bigwig,<br \/>\n<strong>Antonym<\/strong>: inferior, subordinate, underling; mediocrity,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;the kingpins of the television industry<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">3.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Laconic<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: (of a person, speech, or style of writing) using very few words.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: brief, concise, terse, succinct, short, economical,<br \/>\n<strong>Antonym<\/strong>: verbose, long-winded, loquacious<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;his laconic reply suggested a lack of interest in the topic&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">4. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Percussion<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: musical instruments played by striking with the hand or with a stick or beater, or by shaking, including drums, cymbals, xylophones, gongs, bells, and rattles.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: crash, bang, smash, clash, bump<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;percussion instruments&#8221;<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\">5. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>windfall<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning<\/strong>: a large amount of money that is won or received unexpectedly.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonym<\/strong>: bonanza, jackpot,<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #993300;\"><strong>Sentence<\/strong><\/span>: &#8220;members are to get an average \u00a3520 cash windfall for voting \u2018yes\u2019 to the merger&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1.Biennial Meaning: taking place every other year, an event celebrated or taking place every two years Sentence: &#8220;the top antiques fairs are the Milan and Florence biennials&#8221; 2.Kingpin Meaning: a person or thing that is essential to the success of an organization or operation. Synonym: bigwig, Antonym: inferior, subordinate, underling; mediocrity, Sentence: &#8220;the kingpins of [&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-11164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164","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=11164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11165,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11164\/revisions\/11165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}