{"id":42265,"date":"2021-09-19T22:27:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42265"},"modified":"2021-09-19T22:27:59","modified_gmt":"2021-09-19T22:27:59","slug":"english-bemuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-bemuse\/","title":{"rendered":"English: bemuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions <em>bemuse.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>\n<em>Bemuse<\/em> is a great word: it&#8217;s short, seldom used, yet very specific. When you bemuse someone, you puzzle them: they are left wondering either what you said, or else why.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. <em>Merriam-Webster Dictionary<\/em>. Springfield: Merriam-Webster, 2004.<\/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 bemuse. Bemuse is a great word: it&#8217;s short, seldom used, yet very specific. When you bemuse someone, you puzzle them: they are left wondering either what you said, or else why. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/english-bemuse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">English: bemuse<\/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-42265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42265","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=42265"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42267,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42265\/revisions\/42267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}