{"id":38320,"date":"2019-10-11T22:57:41","date_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38320"},"modified":"2019-10-11T22:57:45","modified_gmt":"2019-10-11T22:57:45","slug":"english-vocabulary-decedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-vocabulary-decedent\/","title":{"rendered":"English: vocabulary: decedent"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, new words emerge. The tutor mentions one.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI heard someone say &#8220;decedent&#8221; recently, so wondered if it&#8217;s a word, which it indeed is. A &#8220;decedent&#8221; is one who is deceased.\n<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. (editor). <em>Merriam-Webster Dictionary.<\/em>Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.\n<\/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, new words emerge. The tutor mentions one. I heard someone say &#8220;decedent&#8221; recently, so wondered if it&#8217;s a word, which it indeed is. A &#8220;decedent&#8221; is one who is deceased. Source: Mish, Frederick C. (editor). Merriam-Webster Dictionary.Springfield: Merriam-Webster, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-vocabulary-decedent\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: vocabulary: decedent<\/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-38320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38320","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=38320"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38324,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38320\/revisions\/38324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}