{"id":148,"date":"2014-05-15T08:26:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T08:26:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=148"},"modified":"2014-05-15T08:26:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-15T08:26:54","slug":"abnegate-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/abnegate-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"Abnegate (verb)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abnegate (verb)<\/h3>\n<p>When you <strong>abnegate<\/strong> things, you renounce them; you refuse to take them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In a bid to lose weight, Maya <strong>abnegated<\/strong> sweets for one month.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Maya likes sweets but she stopped taking them because she wanted to lose weight.<\/p>\n<p>Note that we abnegate things that we normally enjoy. You can\u2019t abnegate things you detest.<br \/>\nA person who normally eats meat may <strong>abnegate beef<\/strong> for keeping his heart healthy. However, a vegetarian can\u2019t abnegate meat. They don\u2019t eat meat in the first place and they can\u2019t renounce or abnegate things that they do not enjoy.<br \/>\n<strong>Self-abnegation<\/strong> is the practice of denying oneself even basic amenities, usually for some higher cause.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ancient Rishis (ascetics) in India practiced <strong>self-abnegation<\/strong> because they believed that it would help them attain salvation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Related words<\/h3>\n<p>Abnegation (noun)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abnegate (verb) When you abnegate things, you renounce them; you refuse to take them. In a bid to lose weight, Maya abnegated sweets for one month. Maya likes sweets but she stopped taking them&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-abnegate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}