{"id":1669,"date":"2011-01-12T07:34:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T12:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1669"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:33","slug":"popvocab-expurgate-in-monty-python","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/popvocab-expurgate-in-monty-python\/","title":{"rendered":"PopVocab: “Expurgate” in Monty Python"},"content":{"rendered":"

\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eCM2nEBE0RY<\/p>\n

This classic Monty Python sketch, “Bookshop,” contains a memorable use of the word expurgate<\/A>, which means “to censor, to remove morally offensive passages.”<\/p>\n

The funny part — if you haven’t heard or seen the sketch before — is that the customer in the bookshop wants an expurgated<\/A> version of a book that no one would normally find the need to censor: Olsen’s Standard Book of British Birds<\/i>. (He dislikes a particular bird — they have “long, nasty beaks”).<\/p>\n

There are a few other GRE words relating to censoring or shortening:<\/p>\n

Redact<\/a> – Revise or edit; draw up or frame. This word is sometimes used euphemistically to refer to censorship, as in the title of the 2007 film Redacted<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Abridge<\/a> – “To shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents,” as is frequently done when adapting a book to audiobook format.<\/p>\n

Truncate<\/a> – “to shorten by cutting off a part; cut short”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And, of course, don’t get censor<\/em> mixed up with censure<\/a>, which means to disapprove, especially formally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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