{"id":1412,"date":"2010-11-12T06:36:16","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T11:36:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:41","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:41","slug":"advocabulary-sundry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/advocabulary-sundry\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocabulary: Sundry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What can you buy at a <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/sundry\">sundry<\/a> shop?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/10\/img-1566.jpg\" alt=\"sundry\" title=\"IMG_1566\" width=\"400\" height=\"533\"><\/p>\n<p>Oh, all kinds of stuff.  <i>Sundry<\/i> means &#8220;various, diverse, miscellaneous&#8221; and often occurs in the (rather redundant) expression &#8220;various and sundry.&#8221;  Dictionary.com gives another expression, &#8220;all and sundry,&#8221; which means &#8220;everyone, both collectively and individually.&#8221;  A <i>sundry shop<\/i> would be a good place to get a Snapple, a newspaper, and a tin of shoeshine; the idea of <i>sundries<\/i> includes the idea that the items are of nominal value.<\/p>\n<p>A related word is <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/notion\">notions<\/A>.  A <i>notion<\/i> is usually a vague idea (&#8220;I had a notion about that, but I hadn&#8217;t really thought it through&#8221;), but can also refer to &#8220;small articles, as buttons, thread, ribbon, and other personal items, esp. such items displayed together for sale, as in a department store.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can you buy at a sundry shop? Oh, all kinds of stuff. Sundry means &#8220;various, diverse, miscellaneous&#8221; and often occurs in the (rather redundant) expression &#8220;various and sundry.&#8221; Dictionary.com gives another expression, &#8220;all and sundry,&#8221; which means &#8220;everyone, both collectively and individually.&#8221; A sundry shop would be a good place to get a Snapple, [&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-1412","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\/1412","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=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7320,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions\/7320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}