{"id":35963,"date":"2018-10-24T20:19:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:19:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=35963"},"modified":"2018-10-24T20:19:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T20:19:59","slug":"english-what-does-vaunt-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-vaunt-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"English: what does vaunt mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tutoring English, uncommon words &#8211; especially short ones &#8211; are of particular interest. The tutor mentions <em>vaunt<\/em>.<\/h2>\n<div style=\"font-size:130%;font-family:monospace;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-bottom:16px\">\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\">vaunt (verb):<\/span><br \/>\nto praise or brag about<\/p>\n<p>He <em>vaunts<\/em> his chili.\n<\/div>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. (editor). <em>The Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Barber, Katherine et al (editors). <em>Oxford Canadian Dictionary of Current English<\/em>. Don Mills: Oxford University Press, 2005.<\/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, uncommon words &#8211; especially short ones &#8211; are of particular interest. The tutor mentions vaunt. vaunt (verb): to praise or brag about He vaunts his chili. Source: Mish, Frederick C. (editor). The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004. Barber, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-what-does-vaunt-mean\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: what does vaunt 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":[],"class_list":["post-35963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963","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=35963"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35966,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35963\/revisions\/35966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}