{"id":1062,"date":"2010-08-31T06:40:27","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T11:40:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1062"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:53:00","slug":"visual-dictionary-torpid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/visual-dictionary-torpid\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Dictionary: Torpid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Welcome to <a href=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/index.php\/category\/gre-strategies\/visual-dictionary\/\">Visual Dictionary<\/a>, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1035\" title=\"sluggish torpid enervated\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/06\/sluggish-torpid-enervated.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" \/> Feeling <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/torpid\">torpid<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>If you are lacking energy, such as after a big meal on a hot day, you could refer to yourself as <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/torpid\">torpid<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/listless\">listless<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/lethargic\">lethargic<\/a>, or <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/enervated\">enervated<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you are lazy <em>all of the time<\/em>, you could refer to yourself as <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/indolent\">indolent<\/a>, <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/slothful\">slothful<\/a>, or <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/shiftless\">shiftless<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Choose your own answer to this Antonyms problem, then click &#8220;more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>TORPID:<br \/>\nA. intractable<br \/>\nB. peppery<br \/>\nC. ineffable<br \/>\nD. indefatigable<br \/>\nE. intrepid<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Torpid means sluggish, apathetic, lethargic.  The answer is D, <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/indefatigable\">indefatigable<\/a>, which means <em>untiring<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Indefatigable Hippopotamus&#8221; would be an excellent name for a children&#8217;s book about an unlikely character, as well as an excellent challenge at a spelling bee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Visual Dictionary, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures. Feeling torpid? If you are lacking energy, such as after a big meal on a hot day, you could refer to yourself as torpid, listless, lethargic, or enervated. If you are lazy all of the time, you could refer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-verbal","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7370,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1062\/revisions\/7370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1062"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}