{"id":13244,"date":"2019-04-23T09:56:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T04:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=13244"},"modified":"2019-04-23T09:56:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T04:26:00","slug":"vocabulary-401","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/vocabulary-401\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\"><strong>1. STRIDE (noun)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning:<\/strong> A long step or stage in making progress.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms:<\/strong> clump, tramp, stomp, stalk. Antonyms: amble, meander, ramble, wander.<br \/>\n<strong>Usage:<\/strong> In two bounding strides the woman was in the street, kneeling over her friend.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\"><strong>2. VEXATIOUS (adjective)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning:<\/strong> Causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms:<\/strong> annoying, irksome, infuriating, exasperating.<br \/>\n<strong>Antonyms:<\/strong> pleasing, soothing, aiding, assisting.<br \/>\n<strong>Usage:<\/strong> This vexatious problem was resolved, incompletely, by civil war and secession.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\"><strong>3.<\/strong> <strong>STODGY (adjective)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning:<\/strong> Dull and uninspired; lacking originality or excitement.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms:<\/strong> uninteresting, uninspired, monotonous, humdrum.<br \/>\n<strong>Antonyms:<\/strong> exciting, entertaining, breathtaking, enthralling.<br \/>\n<strong>Usage:<\/strong> Most of my students used informal, asymmetrical balance, as formal balance can seem stodgy and dull.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\"><strong>4.<\/strong> <strong>DODDER (verb)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning:<\/strong> tremble or totter, typically because of old age.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms:<\/strong> stumble, stagger, sway, lurch.<br \/>\n<strong>Antonyms:<\/strong> steady, fix, stay, still, remain.<br \/>\n<strong>Usage:<\/strong> The old woman doddered from the bed to the table.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\"><strong>5.<\/strong> <strong>AGAPE (adjective)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning:<\/strong> (of a person\u2019s mouth) wide open in surprise or wonder.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms:<\/strong> agog, breathless, enthusiastic, raring.<br \/>\n<strong>Antonyms:<\/strong> apathetic, indifferent, unimpressed, uninterested.<br \/>\n<strong>Usage:<\/strong> When I first saw the sunset in the Grand Canyon, I could only stand staring with my mouth agape.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. STRIDE (noun) Meaning: A long step or stage in making progress. Synonyms: clump, tramp, stomp, stalk. Antonyms: amble, meander, ramble, wander. Usage: In two bounding strides the woman was in the street, kneeling over her friend. 2. VEXATIOUS (adjective) Meaning: Causing or tending to cause annoyance, frustration, or worry. Synonyms: annoying, irksome, infuriating, exasperating. [&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-13244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244","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=13244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13245,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13244\/revisions\/13245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}