{"id":21881,"date":"2017-06-23T17:52:37","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:52:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=21881"},"modified":"2017-06-23T17:52:37","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T17:52:37","slug":"english-what-does-paucity-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-paucity-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English:  what does <i>paucity<\/i> mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, vocabulary is a perennial theme.  The tutor mentions <em>paucity<\/em>.<\/h1>\n<p><em>Paucity<\/em> refers to a situation in which the quantity or number of an item is small, likely smaller than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the <em>paucity<\/em> of cream in the fridge, we made tomato sauce [for the pasta] rather than cream sauce.<\/p>\n<p>HTH:)<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Merriam-Webster.  <i>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/i>.  Springfield:  Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Laura (ed). <i>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/i>.  Glasgow: HarperCollins, 2006.<\/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, vocabulary is a perennial theme. The tutor mentions paucity. Paucity refers to a situation in which the quantity or number of an item is small, likely smaller than expected. Due to the paucity of cream in the fridge, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-paucity-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English:  what does <i>paucity<\/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":[1222,2379],"class_list":["post-21881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-vocabulary","tag-what-does-paucity-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881","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=21881"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21891,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21881\/revisions\/21891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}