{"id":2022,"date":"2011-05-09T08:21:57","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T13:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=2022"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:49:31","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:49:31","slug":"popvocab-scotch-is-a-verb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/popvocab-scotch-is-a-verb\/","title":{"rendered":"PopVocab: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Scotch\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is a verb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the UK&#8217;s <i>Daily Mail<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/05\/scotch.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"scotch\" width=\"314\" height=\"118\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2023\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/05\/scotch.jpg 314w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/05\/scotch-300x112.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 314px) 100vw, 314px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/scotch\">Scotch<\/a> isn&#8217;t just a drink! It&#8217;s also a verb!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/scotch\">Scotch<\/a> means &#8220;to put a definite end to; crush; stamp out; foil,&#8221; as in <i>to scotch a rumor; to scotch a plan<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/scotch\">Scotch<\/a> can also mean &#8220;to injure so as to make harmless&#8221; or &#8220;to cut, gash, or score.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, the <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/score\">score<\/a> being used in that definition is the one that means &#8220;to make (cuts, lines, etc) in or on&#8221; or &#8220;to record by making notches in&#8221; &#8212; for instance, you might <i>score<\/i> a door frame with a penknife as a cute way of recording a child&#8217;s height as he or she grows.<\/p>\n<p>Some words similar in meaning to <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/scotch\">scotch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/quash\">Quash<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/quell\">Quell<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/squelch\">Squelch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/stymie\">Stymie<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/thwart\">Thwart<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>I was going to wrap your entire house in toilet paper, but the rainstorm <em>scotched<\/em> my plans.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the UK&#8217;s Daily Mail: Scotch isn&#8217;t just a drink! It&#8217;s also a verb! Scotch means &#8220;to put a definite end to; crush; stamp out; foil,&#8221; as in to scotch a rumor; to scotch a plan. Scotch can also mean &#8220;to injure so as to make harmless&#8221; or &#8220;to cut, gash, or score.&#8221; Of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022","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=2022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7258,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2022\/revisions\/7258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2022"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}