{"id":38911,"date":"2020-02-25T21:11:28","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:11:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=38911"},"modified":"2020-02-25T21:11:28","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T21:11:28","slug":"english-vocabulary-self-effacing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-vocabulary-self-effacing\/","title":{"rendered":"English: vocabulary: &#8220;self-effacing&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, new words are new discoveries. The tutor mentions one.<\/h2>\n<p>\nI don&#8217;t know if I recall hearing &#8220;self-effacing.&#8221; However, I encountered it today. It means &#8220;tending to avoid attention.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nSource:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. <em>The 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 are new discoveries. The tutor mentions one. I don&#8217;t know if I recall hearing &#8220;self-effacing.&#8221; However, I encountered it today. It means &#8220;tending to avoid attention.&#8221; Source: Mish, Frederick C. The Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/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-38911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38911","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=38911"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38912,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38911\/revisions\/38912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}