{"id":2083,"date":"2022-04-24T13:16:10","date_gmt":"2022-04-24T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/24\/word-of-the-day-assuasive\/"},"modified":"2022-04-24T13:16:10","modified_gmt":"2022-04-24T13:16:10","slug":"word-of-the-day-assuasive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/24\/word-of-the-day-assuasive\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the Day: <i>Assuasive<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/dictionary\/assuasive\">Merriam-Webster<\/a>: soothing, calming. Example: &quot;Like all good listeners, he has a way of attending that is at once intense and assuasive: the supplicant feels both nakedly revealed and sheltered, somehow, from all possible judgment.&quot; (David Foster Wallace)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">I am a good listener, but far more intense than assuasive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">You have the verb &#39;assuage&#39; in your vocabulary; now add the adjective &#39;assuasive.&#39;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Merriam-Webster: soothing, calming. Example: &quot;Like all good listeners, he has a way of attending that is at once intense and assuasive: the supplicant feels both nakedly revealed and sheltered, somehow, from all possible judgment.&quot; (David Foster Wallace) I am a good listener, but far more intense than assuasive. You have the verb &#39;assuage&#39; in your &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2022\/04\/24\/word-of-the-day-assuasive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Word of the Day: <i>Assuasive<\/i>&#8220;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,280],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2083\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}