{"id":766,"date":"2010-06-06T16:52:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T16:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2014-11-11T20:49:53","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T20:49:53","slug":"synonyms-quiz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/synonyms-quiz\/","title":{"rendered":"Synonyms quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A little fun for the afternoon \u2013 a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/mind-your-language\/quiz\/2011\/jun\/01\/quiz-synonym-mind-your-language \">quiz<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Synonym\">synonyms<\/a> from the Guardian.<\/p>\n<p>Synonyms are words with identical or very similar meanings. If you\u2019re writing an essay or letter and you\u2019ve used a word too many times, the synonym option on your word processing package can be very useful. Some writers take the quest for different words a little too far though \u2013 a carrot as a \u201cpopular orange vegetable\u201d is an example from the Guardian\u2019s Mind Your Language <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/media\/mind-your-language\/2010\/jun\/02\/my-synonym-hell-mind-your-language\">blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some useful resources on synonyms are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.synonyms.net\/ \">Synonyms.net<\/a> (self-described as \u201cthe world\u2019s most comprehensive synonyms resource\u201d), which offers synonyms in English only, and <a href=\"http:\/\/trovami.altervista.org\/en\/sinonimi \">Thesaurus<\/a>, with synonyms in English, French, Italian, Spanish, German and Portuguese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A little fun for the afternoon \u2013 a quiz on synonyms from the Guardian. Synonyms are words with identical or very similar meanings. If you\u2019re writing an essay or letter and you\u2019ve used a word too many times, the synonym option on your word processing package can be very useful. Some writers take the quest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,44],"tags":[745,746,749,747,750,748,743,744,44,72],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-acquisition","category-words","tag-english-synonyms","tag-french-synonyms","tag-german-synonyms","tag-italian-synonyms","tag-portuguese-synonyms","tag-spanish-synonyms","tag-synonyms","tag-synonyms-quiz","tag-words","tag-writing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2508,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/2508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}