{"id":1616,"date":"2012-10-22T17:07:37","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T17:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=1616"},"modified":"2012-11-07T17:34:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-07T17:34:29","slug":"1616","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/22\/1616\/","title":{"rendered":"Assiduous, Perfidious and Querulous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a fun word game on Word Dynamo that is intended for American students studying for their SATs. As I read English at university I fancied my chances of attaining a perfect score but a few words managed to stump me. I managed to get 44\/47 on the quiz and I thought I would include the words that eluded me and their definitions below.<\/p>\n<p>Assiduous &#8211; Showing great care and perseverance.<\/p>\n<p>Perfidious &#8211; Deceitful and untrustworthy.<\/p>\n<p>Querulous &#8211; Complaining in a petulant or whining manner.<\/p>\n<p>Online word games are a fantastic way to enhance your vocabulary and I am going to try and commit these words to memory so I can use them in day to day speech. The quiz I completed can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/dynamo.dictionary.com\/games\/53\/sat-greatest-hits-most-common-words-on-the-sat\/match\">HERE<\/a>. Why not give it a go and see i you can beat my score.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across a fun word game on Word Dynamo that is intended for American students studying for their SATs. As I read English at university I fancied my chances of attaining a perfect score but a few words managed to stump me. I managed to get 44\/47 on the quiz and I thought I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,27,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-english","category-hints-and-tips","category-words"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1616"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1618,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1616\/revisions\/1618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}