{"id":42689,"date":"2021-12-16T22:06:32","date_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:06:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42689"},"modified":"2021-12-16T22:06:33","modified_gmt":"2021-12-16T22:06:33","slug":"vocabulary-pert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-pert\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary: pert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions <em>pert.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>\nI recall Pert shampoo appearing when I was in elementary school. I always wondered if <em>pert<\/em> is a standalone word.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that <em>pert<\/em> can mean &#8220;bold&#8221;, &#8220;lithe&#8221;, or &#8220;energetic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederic C (editor). <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\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions pert. I recall Pert shampoo appearing when I was in elementary school. I always wondered if pert is a standalone word. It turns out that pert can mean &#8220;bold&#8221;, &#8220;lithe&#8221;, or &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-pert\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vocabulary: pert<\/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-42689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42689","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=42689"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42690,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42689\/revisions\/42690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}