{"id":3534,"date":"2014-06-18T09:48:53","date_gmt":"2014-06-18T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.old.caraghobrien.com\/book\/?p=3534"},"modified":"2014-07-11T16:24:00","modified_gmt":"2014-07-11T20:24:00","slug":"agog-bogus-cusp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/birthmarked\/agog-bogus-cusp\/","title":{"rendered":"Agog, Bogus, Cusp"},"content":{"rendered":"

Let’s hear it for the little words. \u00a0<\/p>\n

I relish finding the perfect word for each idea, and I love reading books that tickle my\u00a0delight in rich vocabulary. I find special pleasure in the little words, the gems of five letters or fewer that pack a wallop, and so, in honor of our common verve for language, I highlight 26 choice little words:<\/p>\n

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Hopkins gate at Williams College: little words, big ideas.<\/p><\/div>\n

agog<\/a><\/p>\n

bogus<\/a><\/p>\n

cusp<\/a><\/p>\n

din<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00e9lan<\/a><\/p>\n

fop<\/a><\/p>\n

gauge<\/a><\/p>\n

hovel<\/a><\/p>\n

ilk<\/a><\/p>\n

jowly<\/a><\/p>\n

kin<\/a><\/p>\n

lithe<\/a><\/p>\n

moxie<\/a><\/p>\n

nil<\/a><\/p>\n

oust<\/a><\/p>\n

pique<\/a><\/p>\n

quip<\/a><\/p>\n

rube<\/a><\/p>\n

stint<\/a><\/p>\n

taut<\/a><\/p>\n

usurp<\/a><\/p>\n

vile<\/a><\/p>\n

warp<\/a><\/p>\n

xeric<\/a><\/p>\n

yon<\/a><\/p>\n

zeal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Let’s hear it for the little words. \u00a0 I relish finding the perfect word for each idea, and I love reading books that tickle my\u00a0delight in rich vocabulary. I find special pleasure in the little words, the gems of five letters or fewer that pack a wallop, and so, in honor of our common verve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-birthmarked"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3534"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3542,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3534\/revisions\/3542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.caraghobrien.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}