{"id":2036,"date":"2003-01-06T20:41:00","date_gmt":"2003-01-06T20:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/06\/i-have-blisters-on-my-fingers-tha\/"},"modified":"2015-06-19T00:27:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-18T23:27:30","slug":"i-have-blisters-on-my-fingers-tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/06\/i-have-blisters-on-my-fingers-tha\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

I have blisters on my fingers that make it hard to type, but there’s ony 9 days keft till admission deadlines, so it won’t stop me from studying . . .<\/p>\n

The 15 GRE Words of the Day<\/h2>\n
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  1. connoisseur<\/b> (noun) an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert He sniffer the cork of the wine bottle with the self-assurance of a connoisseur<\/i><\/li>\n
  2. contentious<\/b> (adjective) argumentative; quarrelsome; casuing controversy or disagreement Some of the elemtns of the book The Bell Curve<\/u> are highly contentious<\/i><\/li>\n
  3. contrite<\/b> (adjective) regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness She gave the parole board and the victim’s family a contrite apology.<\/i><\/li>\n
  4. convention<\/b> (noun) a generally agreed-upon practice or attitude Ancient Greek actors had a convention of wearing masks during plays.<\/i><\/li>\n
  5. convoluted<\/b> (adjective) complex or complicated. Rube Goldberg was a cartoonist who drew convoluted machines (involving things like candles buring through ropes, mice chasing cheese, bowling balls, etc) for performing simple tasks<\/i><\/li>\n
  6. credulous<\/b> (adjective) tending to believe too readily; gullible She was so credulous that she believed everything she read.<\/i><\/li>\n
  7. culpable<\/b> (adjective) deserving blame The courts will find Ken Lay culpable<\/i><\/li>\n
  8. cynicism<\/b> (noun) an attitude or quality of of beleif that all people are motivated by selfishness She noted, with cynicism, that celebrities don’t fund charities anonymously<\/i><\/li>\n
  9. dearth<\/b> (noun) smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack We suffered from the region’s dearth of peanut butter, and ate our sandwiches only with jelly<\/i><\/li>\n
  10. decorum<\/b> (noun) polite or appropriate conduct or behavior After reading Miss Manners, I attempted to act with decorum<\/i><\/li>\n
  11. demur<\/b> (verb) to question or oppose I suggested we go back to my place for some drinks, but the lady politely demurred.<\/i><\/li>\n
  12. derision<\/b> (noun) scorn, ridicule, contemptuous treatment Originally, her idea to run a car on vegitable oil was met with derision, but now we run our car on soybean oil<\/i><\/li>\n
  13. desiccate<\/b> (verb) to dry out or dehydrate; to make dry or dull Her edits fixed my grammer but also completely dessicated my document<\/i><\/li>\n
  14. diatribe<\/b> (noun) a harsh denunciation Dr. Laura launched into yet another diatribe against one of her callers – the third or fourth such diatribe that hour<\/i><\/li>\n
  15. didactic<\/b> (adjective) intended to teach or instruct Gerda Malaperis<\/u> is a didactic text by Claude Piron. The story isn’t very good, but you do learn a lot of Esperanto.<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    I have blisters on my fingers that make it hard to type, but there’s ony 9 days keft till admission deadlines, so it won’t stop me from studying . . . The 15 GRE Words of the Day connoisseur (noun) an informed and astute judge in matters of taste; expert He sniffer the cork of … Continue reading <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,282],"class_list":["post-2036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised","tag-celesteh","tag-gre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4289,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celesteh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}