{"id":373,"date":"2009-05-09T12:25:18","date_gmt":"2009-05-09T19:25:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=373"},"modified":"2009-05-09T13:58:40","modified_gmt":"2009-05-09T20:58:40","slug":"more-words-i-didnt-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=373","title":{"rendered":"More words I didn&#8217;t know"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the process of reviewing some helpfully provided word lists, in preparation for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/?p=378\">spelling bee<\/a>, I encountered some new words (a nice side effect!).  Here they are:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>cenacle: a group of people, as in a discussion or literary group (hey, like my <a href=\"http:\/\/bookclub.idahoev.com\/\">book club<\/a>!)\n<li>ballottement: a palpatory technique for detecting or examining a floating object in the body\n<li>gallimaufry: a confused jumble of things (can be applied to food, e.g., hash or ragout) &#8212; this one wasn&#8217;t from studying pre-bee, but from Tim post-bee.  Awesome word!\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I also came across a few words I probably would have misspelled, prior to this refresher.  I&#8217;m recording them here in hopes this will help me remember them correctly in the future!<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li>barbiturate: for some reason, I didn&#8217;t know it had an r in it\n<li>bellwether: not -weather\n<li>bouillon: not boullion\n<li>cantaloupe: not -ope\n<li>cemetery: not -ary\n<li>corollary: one r, two l&#8217;s\n<li>correlate: two r&#8217;s, one l\n<li>dispensable: not -ible\n<li>guerrilla: two r&#8217;s, two l&#8217;s\n<li>minuscule: not miniscule!\n<li>mischievous: apparently mischievious is not a word!\n<li>occasion: not occaison (I still don&#8217;t get why I always misspell this one.  I guess it is my occasional heel)\n<li>perseverance: not -ence\n<li>sacrilegious: i and e inverted from their placement in &#8220;religious&#8221;, likely because the word doesn&#8217;t actually derive from &#8220;religious&#8221;, but instead stealing-of (legere) sacred things (sacri-).\n<li>sergeant: not sa-\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the process of reviewing some helpfully provided word lists, in preparation for the spelling bee, I encountered some new words (a nice side effect!). Here they are: cenacle: a group of people, as in a discussion or literary group (hey, like my book club!) ballottement: a palpatory technique for detecting or examining a floating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=373"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":394,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373\/revisions\/394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wkiri.com\/today\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}