{"id":1708,"date":"2011-01-26T12:39:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-26T17:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:32","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:32","slug":"origin-stories-adumbrate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/origin-stories-adumbrate\/","title":{"rendered":"Origin Stories: Adumbrate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"child superhero\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/01\/superhero-sm.jpg\" alt=\"origin stories\" width=\"190\" class=\"alignright\" \/><em>&#8220;Origin story&#8221; is an expression for a superhero&#8217;s backstory &#8212; for instance, Superman was born on Krypton just before it was destroyed.  Many words also have fascinating origin stories.  While English comes largely from Latin (and from Greek, and from Latin through French and Spanish, with some Germanic roots and a bit of Sanskrit, etc.), you&#8217;ll find that word usage can change quite bit over a couple thousand years.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/adumbrate\">Adumbrate<\/a> means &#8220;Give a rough outline of; foreshadow; reveal only partially; obscure.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When I took on the lead role in the movie, I agreed not to give away the plot, but I suppose I could give a brief <em>adumbration<\/em> of the premise.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><em>Adumbrate<\/em> contains the root umbra,\u009d Latin for shadow.\u009d  It may seem that give an outline of\u009d and obscure\u009d are opposites, but think of it this way \u201c to adumbrate is to give a shadowy, vague picture of something, which could mean giving more information (if starting with nothing) or obscuring information (if starting with a clear picture) in order to reach that point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Origin story&#8221; is an expression for a superhero&#8217;s backstory &#8212; for instance, Superman was born on Krypton just before it was destroyed. Many words also have fascinating origin stories. While English comes largely from Latin (and from Greek, and from Latin through French and Spanish, with some Germanic roots and a bit of Sanskrit, etc.), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-1708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-verbal","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708","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=1708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7292,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1708\/revisions\/7292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1708"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}