{"id":1665,"date":"2016-11-23T16:32:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-23T16:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1665"},"modified":"2016-11-23T16:32:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-23T16:32:07","slug":"hesitate-a-word-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/hesitate-a-word-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Hesitate | A word a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hesitate (verb)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To hesitate is to stop or pause briefly.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The driver hesitated for a moment at the intersection and then turned right.<\/li>\n<li>People hesitate to do something when they are unsure of the outcome.<\/li>\n<li>He hesitated to pay the bill. (= He was reluctant to pay the bill.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hesitant (adjective)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hesitant can mean reluctant, half-hearted, irresolute, wavering etc.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why are you so hesitant about asking for directions?<\/li>\n<li>He was hesitant to help.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Antonyms: <em>eager, resolute, keen, willing, steadfast, decisive, confident, staunch etc.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hesitate (verb) To hesitate is to stop or pause briefly. The driver hesitated for a moment at the intersection and then turned right. People hesitate to do something when they are unsure of the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[354],"class_list":["post-1665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-a-day","tag-hesitate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1665"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1666,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1665\/revisions\/1666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}