{"id":20859,"date":"2017-04-09T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2017-04-09T20:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=20859"},"modified":"2017-04-09T20:53:15","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T20:53:15","slug":"english-what-does-sere-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-sere-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  what does <i>sere<\/i> mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always welcome.  The tutor introduces the word <i>sere<\/i>.<\/h1>\n<p>Recently, reading &#8220;The Outsider&#8221; by Lovecraft, I noticed his use of the word <em>sere<\/em>.  The context didn&#8217;t help me decide its meaning, so I had to look it up:<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:120%\">sere: diminished from age<\/p>\n<p>Lovecraft uses words I find nowhere else.  Short, unfamiliar words are particularly appealing additions to the vocabulary.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al.  <u>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/u>.  Don Mills:  Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/p>\n<p><u>Classic Tales of Horror<\/u>.  San Diego:  Canterbury Classics, 2005.<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, new vocabulary is always welcome. The tutor introduces the word sere. Recently, reading &#8220;The Outsider&#8221; by Lovecraft, I noticed his use of the word sere. The context didn&#8217;t help me decide its meaning, so I had to look &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-sere-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  what does <i>sere<\/i> mean?<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2237,1222,2236],"class_list":["post-20859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-the-outsider-by-lovecraft","tag-vocabulary","tag-what-does-sere-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20859"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20865,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20859\/revisions\/20865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}