{"id":35615,"date":"2018-08-27T07:08:45","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35615"},"modified":"2018-08-27T07:08:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T07:08:45","slug":"what-is-dross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/what-is-dross\/","title":{"rendered":"What is dross?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions the definition of <em>dross<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<div style=\"font-family:monospace;font-size:130%;margin-bottom:16px;white-space:pre-wrap\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">dross (noun):<\/span><br \/>\ndisposable matter or impurity, often referring to that floating atop a molten metal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Gilmour, Lorna (editor). <em>Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus<\/em>. Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.<\/p>\nJack of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane,<\/a> Campbell River, BC.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions the definition of dross. dross (noun): disposable matter or impurity, often referring to that floating atop a molten metal. Source: Gilmour, Lorna (editor). Collins Essential Canadian English Dictionary and Thesaurus. Glasgow: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/what-is-dross\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is dross?<\/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":[2825],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615","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=35615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35618,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35615\/revisions\/35618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}