{"id":1703,"date":"2016-12-14T16:52:29","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1703"},"modified":"2016-12-14T16:52:30","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T16:52:30","slug":"discriminate-a-word-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/discriminate-a-word-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Discriminate | A word a day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To<strong> discriminate<\/strong> is to demonstrate bias or show disfavor toward somebody.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The company was accused of discriminating against female employees. (= The company was accused of demonstrating bias against female employees.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discriminate can also mean differentiate.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Can you discriminate between good and bad poetry?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Spelling tip<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discriminate has three i\u2019s in it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discrimination (noun)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Discrimination means bias, prejudice or favoritism.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Laws should be passed against gender discrimination.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Discrimination can also mean discretion or taste.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She shows fine discrimination in choosing costumes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Keep in mind that discrimination has four i\u2019s in it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To discriminate is to demonstrate bias or show disfavor toward somebody. The company was accused of discriminating against female employees. (= The company was accused of demonstrating bias against female employees.) Discriminate can also&#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":[364],"class_list":["post-1703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-a-day","tag-discriminate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703","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=1703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1704,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1703\/revisions\/1704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}