{"id":1404,"date":"2010-11-10T06:14:55","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T11:14:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:41","slug":"advocabulary-daffys-on-broadway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/advocabulary-daffys-on-broadway\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocabulary: Daffy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on Broadway"},"content":{"rendered":"

This display was seen in a window of the Financial District location of Daffy’s, a discount clothing retailer:<\/p>\n

\"pulchritudinous\"<\/p>\n

Pulchritude<\/a> is an ugly-sounding word simply meaning “physical beauty.” Its provenance is the Latin pulchrit\u00c5\u00abd\u00c5\u008d<\/i>, also meaning beauty. I was unable to find any other words in English using this root (that’s why it sounds so weird!), although I did discover, in an online gardening forum, that there is an Aeschynanthus pulcher<\/i> that is also known as a “lipstick plant,” which makes a certain sort of sense.<\/p>\n

Since we’re talking about beauty, now seems as fine a place as any to mention that, in India, the word “homely” means “domestic” (as in, a quality a traditionally-minded man would want in a traditionally-minded wife), but in U.S. English, homely<\/A> means “plain, unattractive,” and is a somewhat less popular attribute in a romantic partner.<\/p>\n

Just Google the phrase “homely wife,” and you’ll get lots of Indian matrimonial ads containing phrases that, in U.S. English, are oxymorons<\/a>: “Professional male seeks beautiful and homely<\/i> wife.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This display was seen in a window of the Financial District location of Daffy’s, a discount clothing retailer: Pulchritude is an ugly-sounding word simply meaning “physical beauty.” Its provenance is the Latin pulchrit\u00c5\u00abd\u00c5\u008d, also meaning beauty. I was unable to find any other words in English using this root (that’s why it sounds so weird!), […]<\/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-1404","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\/1404","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=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7321,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/7321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}