{"id":13542,"date":"2019-05-27T11:04:44","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T05:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/race4job.com\/blog\/?p=13542"},"modified":"2019-05-27T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2019-05-27T05:34:44","slug":"vocabulary-417","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/vocabulary-417\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\"><strong>1. SKULK (verb)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning:<\/strong>\u00a0 to move about in a sly or secret manner. Synonyms: lurk, shirk, sneak, crawl.<br \/>\n<strong>Antonyms:<\/strong>\u00a0 hustle, hurry, run, race.<br \/>\n<strong>Usage:<\/strong>\u00a0 When the criminal surveyed the jewelry store, he tried to skulk around the neighborhood without being noticed.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\"><strong>2. REGNANT (adjective)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning:<\/strong> reigning; ruling.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms:<\/strong> dominant, prevalent, rife, rampant.<br \/>\n<strong>Antonyms:\u00a0<\/strong> powerless, ineffectual, inadequate, ineffective.<br \/>\n<strong>Usage:<\/strong> After all, a queen regnant sits on the throne and the monarchy must be feeling pressure from its seemingly more progressive neighbors.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\"><strong>3. DISTRATE (adjective)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning:\u00a0<\/strong> distracted or absent-minded.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms:<\/strong> forgetful, inattentive, oblivious, heedless.<br \/>\n<strong>Antonyms:<\/strong> alert, attentive, focused, unperturbed.<br \/>\n<strong>Usage:<\/strong> He grew more and more distrait as hours passed without confirmation that there were survivors of the plane crash<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\"><strong>4. RIPOSTE (noun)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning:<\/strong> a quick, clever reply to an insult or criticism.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms:<\/strong> retort, retaliation, repartee, quip.<br \/>\n<strong>Antonyms:<\/strong> request, query, bidding, catechize.<br \/>\n<strong>Usage:<\/strong> A riposte to that argument was provided by Sea Containers, the shipping group headed by James Sherwood.<\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: #a1d490; padding: 10px; margin-bottom: 5px; color: black;\"><strong>5. BENIGNANT (adjective)<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Meaning:<\/strong> having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others.<br \/>\n<strong>Synonyms:<\/strong> beneficent, benevolent, compassionate, softhearted.<br \/>\n<strong>Antonyms:<\/strong> atrocious, barbarous, callous, fiendish.<br \/>\n<strong>Usage:<\/strong> The queen had a benignant reputation and was loved for her caring treatment of others.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. SKULK (verb) Meaning:\u00a0 to move about in a sly or secret manner. Synonyms: lurk, shirk, sneak, crawl. Antonyms:\u00a0 hustle, hurry, run, race. Usage:\u00a0 When the criminal surveyed the jewelry store, he tried to skulk around the neighborhood without being noticed. 2. REGNANT (adjective) Meaning: reigning; ruling. Synonyms: dominant, prevalent, rife, rampant. Antonyms:\u00a0 powerless, ineffectual, [&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-13542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13542","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=13542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13547,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13542\/revisions\/13547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.race4job.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}