{"id":23153,"date":"2017-08-28T14:21:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=23153"},"modified":"2017-08-28T14:21:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T14:21:35","slug":"english-what-does-prolix-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-prolix-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English: what does prolix mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Tutoring English, new, short, descriptive words are welcome additions to the vocabulary. The tutor mentions prolix.<\/h1>\n<p><em>prolix: using more words than needed, in a clumsy way; overly long for its meaning.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The essay was prolix; the student had padded it to fill the word count.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al. <i>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/i>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 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, short, descriptive words are welcome additions to the vocabulary. The tutor mentions prolix. prolix: using more words than needed, in a clumsy way; overly long for its meaning. The essay was prolix; the student had padded it &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-prolix-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: what does prolix 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":[2467],"class_list":["post-23153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","tag-what-does-prolix-mean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153","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=23153"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23167,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23153\/revisions\/23167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}