{"id":1556,"date":"2010-12-14T15:18:27","date_gmt":"2010-12-14T20:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:38","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:38","slug":"advocabulary-copious-abatements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/advocabulary-copious-abatements\/","title":{"rendered":"Advocabulary: Copious Abatements!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The company <A HREF=\"\/\/www.groupon.com\/\">Groupon<\/A> (as in &#8220;group coupon&#8221;) cleverly posted this ad on Dictionary.com:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/12\/copious-300250.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"copious_300250\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1557\" \/><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/copious\">Copious<\/A> simply means &#8220;plentiful, a lot of.&#8221;  An <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/abatement\">abatement<\/A> is a lessening or alleviation &#8212; or, &#8220;an amount deducted or subtracted, as from the usual price or the full tax.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copious abatements!  A <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/panoply\">panoply<\/a> of discounts!   (See <A HREF=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/08\/03\/a-plethora-of-words-for-a-plethora\/\">A Plethora of Words for a Plethora<\/A> for more words that mean &#8220;a lot&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>I am now far more inclined to use the services of Groupon, now that they have become <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/japing\">japingly<\/A><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/bombastic\"> bombastic<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company Groupon (as in &#8220;group coupon&#8221;) cleverly posted this ad on Dictionary.com: Copious simply means &#8220;plentiful, a lot of.&#8221; An abatement is a lessening or alleviation &#8212; or, &#8220;an amount deducted or subtracted, as from the usual price or the full tax.&#8221; Copious abatements! A panoply of discounts! (See A Plethora of Words for [&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-1556","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\/1556","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=1556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7309,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556\/revisions\/7309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}