{"id":42806,"date":"2022-01-04T22:38:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=42806"},"modified":"2022-01-04T22:38:42","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T22:38:42","slug":"vocabulary-factitious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-factitious\/","title":{"rendered":"Vocabulary: factitious"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2>Tutoring English, vocabulary is always interesting. The tutor mentions factitious.<\/h2>\n<p>\n<em>Factitious<\/em> means invented, but meant to be real or believed even so. A person may be trying to get a business up and running; if they say it exists before it really does, you might think of it as being <em>factitious<\/em>. A person&#8217;s appreciation of something can also be factitious.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<\/p>\n<p>Mish, Frederick C. (ed). <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 factitious. Factitious means invented, but meant to be real or believed even so. A person may be trying to get a business up and running; if they say it exists before &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/vocabulary-factitious\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vocabulary: factitious<\/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-42806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42806","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=42806"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42809,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42806\/revisions\/42809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}