{"id":2131,"date":"2011-06-21T17:43:18","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T22:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=2131"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:49:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:49:26","slug":"popvocab-insidious-vs-invidious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/popvocab-insidious-vs-invidious\/","title":{"rendered":"PopVocab: Insidious vs. Invidious"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/insidious\">Insidious<\/A> is an adjective meaning:<\/p>\n<p>1. Working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner: <em>insidious rumors; an insidious disease<\/em>.<br \/>\n2. Intended to entrap; treacherous: <em>insidious misinformation.<\/em><br \/>\n3. Beguiling but harmful; alluring: <em>insidious pleasures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><IMG SRC=\"\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/2\/2d\/Insidious_poster.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><i>Insidious<\/i> is also the title of a 2010 horror film starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne and Ty Simpkins. According to <A HREF=\"\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1591095\/\">IMDB<\/A>: &#8220;A family looks to prevent evil spirits from trapping their comatose child in a realm called The Further.&#8221; Seems likely that a haunted house could provide a steathily-spreading evil.<\/p>\n<p>Relatedly, an <A HREF=\"\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/Insidious+disease\">insidious disease<\/A> is &#8220;a disease existing, without marked symptoms, but ready to become active upon some slight occasion; a disease not appearing to be as bad as it really is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"\/\/www.centurymedia.com\/artist.aspx?IdArtist=295\">Insidious Disease<\/A> is also, appropriately enough, a death metal band:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you ask INSIDIOUS DISEASE about their definition of death metal they would probably answer that it should satisfy your urge for darkness, the <a href=\"\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/morbid\">morbid<\/a> and the sick, the perverted and the twisted, all things insane that can be discovered within the human mind and soul manifesting in a sound that makes you vomit your guts out!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Don&#8217;t confuse <i>insidious<\/i> with the similar-sounding <a href=\"\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/invidious\">invidious<\/a>, which means:<\/p>\n<p>1. Tending to rouse ill will, animosity, or resentment: invidious accusations.<br \/>\n2. Containing or implying a slight; discriminatory<br \/>\n3. Envious.<\/p>\n<p>Use <i>insidious<\/i> for creeping, slow-moving evil, and <i>invidious<\/i> for actions done by humans that are immediately obvious as being harmful. Racist speech is <i>invidious<\/i>, and the lingering effects of racism have <i>insidious<\/i> effects on people&#8217;s lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insidious is an adjective meaning: 1. Working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner: insidious rumors; an insidious disease. 2. Intended to entrap; treacherous: insidious misinformation. 3. Beguiling but harmful; alluring: insidious pleasures. Insidious is also the title of a 2010 horror film starring Patrick Wilson, Rose Byrne and Ty Simpkins. According to [&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-2131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131","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=2131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7245,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2131\/revisions\/7245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2131"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}