{"id":2146,"date":"2011-07-04T20:14:47","date_gmt":"2011-07-05T01:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=2146"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:49:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:49:25","slug":"iphone-vocabulary-fail-ominous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/iphone-vocabulary-fail-ominous\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone Vocabulary Fail: Ominous!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"\/\/damnyouautocorrect.com\/2121\/wtf-pizza-toppings\/\">Damn You, Auto Correct<\/a>!:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/07\/pizzadinner.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"pizzadinner\" width=\"320\" height=\"235\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/07\/pizzadinner.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/07\/pizzadinner-300x220.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/ominous\">Ominous<\/a>, of course, means &#8220;Menacing; threatening; of or being an omen, especially an evil one.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><i>Ominous<\/i> could be said to be the antonym of <a href=\"\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/auspicious\">auspicious<\/a>, which means &#8220;attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I need to get my hearing aids checked! What I heard as the <em>ominous<\/em> sound of thunder was really the <em>auspicious<\/em> sound of the ice cream truck rumbling down the street!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The word <A HREF=\"\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/propitious\">propitious<\/A> can be used in the same way as <i>auspicious<\/i>, meaning &#8220;presenting favorable circumstances.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Damn You, Auto Correct!: Ominous, of course, means &#8220;Menacing; threatening; of or being an omen, especially an evil one.&#8221; Ominous could be said to be the antonym of auspicious, which means &#8220;attended by favorable circumstances; marked by success.&#8221; I need to get my hearing aids checked! What I heard as the ominous sound of [&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-2146","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\/2146","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=2146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7242,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2146\/revisions\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2146"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}