{"id":107,"date":"2004-10-16T17:14:56","date_gmt":"2004-10-17T00:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2019-01-08T17:05:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-08T17:05:33","slug":"words-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/16\/words-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Words of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found these words on an index card while cleaning this past weekend. I finally looked them up and I&#8217;ve posted both the words and their meanings:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Perspicacity<\/span>: Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Occidentals<\/span>: Natives or inhabitants of an Occidental country; a westerner.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Syllogism<\/span>: A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, a minor premise, and a conclusion; for example, <em>All humans are mortal, the major premise, I am a human, the minor premise, therefore, I am mortal, the conclusion.<\/em>; reasoning from the general to the specific<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Engender<\/span>: To bring into existence; give rise to: &#8220;Every cloud engenders not a storm&#8221; (Shakespeare); to procreate; propagate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found these words on an index card while cleaning this past weekend. I finally looked them up and I&#8217;ve posted both the words and their meanings: Perspicacity: Acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding. Occidentals: Natives or inhabitants of an Occidental country; a westerner. Syllogism: A form of deductive reasoning consisting of a major premise, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[360,523],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-language","tag-quotes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3766,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/3766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}