{"id":1912,"date":"2011-05-14T15:25:45","date_gmt":"2011-05-14T20:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=1912"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:49:30","slug":"visual-dictionary-countenance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/visual-dictionary-countenance\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Dictionary: Countenance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/06\/crafty.jpg\" alt=\"countenance\" title=\"face\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" \/><em>Welcome to <A HREF=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/index.php\/category\/gre-strategies\/visual-dictionary\/\">Visual Dictionary<\/A>, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/countenance\">Countenance<\/a> as a verb means &#8220;approve or tolerate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/countenance\">countenance<\/a> can also literally mean face\u009d or &#8220;facial expression,&#8221; as in <i>Her countenance was familiar \u201c did we know each other?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The metaphorical meaning makes sense when you think about a similar expression: I cannot look you in the face after what you did.\u009d  (We would usually say I cannot face you\u009d when the speaker is the guilty party).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I saw you cheating off my paper, and I can&#8217;t countenance cheating \u201c either you turn yourself in or I&#8217;ll report you.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Visual Dictionary, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures. Countenance as a verb means &#8220;approve or tolerate.&#8221; But countenance can also literally mean face\u009d or &#8220;facial expression,&#8221; as in Her countenance was familiar \u201c did we know each other? The metaphorical meaning makes sense when you think about [&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-1912","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\/1912","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=1912"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7256,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1912\/revisions\/7256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1912"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}