{"id":301,"date":"2014-09-09T04:40:06","date_gmt":"2014-09-09T04:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=301"},"modified":"2014-09-09T04:40:06","modified_gmt":"2014-09-09T04:40:06","slug":"abstract-and-abstruse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/abstract-and-abstruse\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstract and abstruse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Abstract (AB strakt) (Adjective)<\/h3>\n<p>Abstract means theoretical or impersonal. When you like something in the abstract, you like the idea of it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I liked oysters <strong>in the abstract,<\/strong> but when I actually ate one, I became nauseated.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Abstract speculations are hard-to-understand speculations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Synonyms of abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Theoretical, recondite, abstruse<\/p>\n<p><strong>Antonyms of abstract<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Concrete, practical<\/p>\n<h3>Abstruse (ab STROOS) (adjective)<\/h3>\n<p>If something is abstruse, it is hard to understand.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The article was very <strong>abstruse<\/strong>. I couldn\u2019t understand even a word in it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Trigonometry is a subject that has always been too<strong> abstruse<\/strong> for me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract (AB strakt) (Adjective) Abstract means theoretical or impersonal. When you like something in the abstract, you like the idea of it. I liked oysters in the abstract, but when I actually ate one,&#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":[64],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-word-a-day","tag-abstruse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","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=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}