{"id":2067,"date":"2011-05-25T08:04:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-25T13:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=2067"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:49:28","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:49:28","slug":"memory-tricks-minatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/memory-tricks-minatory\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory Tricks: Minatory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minatory<\/a> means “menacing or threatening.” Bullies are minatory<\/i>. An approaching tornado could be minatory<\/i>. You know what else is minatory<\/i>? The Minotaur!<\/p>\n

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Abridged from Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n

In Greek mythology, the Minotaur, as the Greeks imagined him, was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman poet Ovid, “part man and part bull”. He dwelt at the center of the Cretan Labyrinth, which was an elaborate maze-like construction built to hold the Minotaur. The Minotaur was eventually killed by the Athenian hero Theseus.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It turns out that minatory<\/i> and Minotaur<\/i> don’t actually share a common root (minatory<\/i> shares a root with menace<\/i> and Minotaur<\/i> comes from Minos, king of Crete, and tauros<\/em>, “bull.”)<\/p>\n

But, if it helps us remember that minatory means threatening<\/i>, then I think it’s a pretty helpful association. I mean, look at this:<\/p>\n

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Really minatory!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minatory means “menacing or threatening.” Bullies are minatory. An approaching tornado could be minatory. You know what else is minatory? The Minotaur! Abridged from Wikipedia: In Greek mythology, the Minotaur, as the Greeks imagined him, was a creature with the head of a bull on the body of a man or, as described by Roman […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-2067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to-study"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067","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=2067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7252,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2067\/revisions\/7252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2067"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}