{"id":1064,"date":"2010-09-01T06:52:47","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T11:52:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1064"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:53:00","slug":"three-letter-words-wan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/three-letter-words-wan\/","title":{"rendered":"Three-Letter Words: Wan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Text book word close-up\" src=\"\/\/cdn.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2000\/Definition-300x223.jpg\" alt=\"definition\" width=\"190\" class=\"alignright\" \/><em>Some of the most perplexing words on the GRE are diminutive.  Who doesn&#8217;t see PAN : REVIEW and metaphorically scratch his or her head, or wonder what, exactly, a nib\u009d or a gin\u009d is on its own?  Welcome to <a href=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/index.php\/category\/gre-strategies\/three-letter-words-gre-strategies\/\">Three-Letter Words<\/a>.  A few of them might make you want to deploy some four-letter words.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/wan\">Wan<\/A> means pale, sickly, fatigued, or weak.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reality show host gave the contestant a thumbs-up as he lowered her into a tank full of centipedes.  She could manage only a <em>wan<\/em> smile in reply.<\/p>\n<p>She made it to the job interview despite having the flu, and fortunately had time to duck into the ladies&#8217; room and attempt to conceal her <em>wan<\/em> complexion with makeup.<\/p>\n<p>Supposedly, Juan had been able to slam-dunk in high school, but ten years of smoking and indolence had not improved his basketball skills.  After handily defeating Juan at a pickup game, Balaji said, &#8220;That was <i>wan<\/i>, Juan.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the most perplexing words on the GRE are diminutive. Who doesn&#8217;t see PAN : REVIEW and metaphorically scratch his or her head, or wonder what, exactly, a nib\u009d or a gin\u009d is on its own? Welcome to Three-Letter Words. A few of them might make you want to deploy some four-letter words. Wan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064","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=1064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7369,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1064\/revisions\/7369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1064"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}