{"id":2191,"date":"2011-07-16T13:39:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-16T18:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=2191"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:49:23","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:49:23","slug":"popvocab-keith-olbermann-is-stentorian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/popvocab-keith-olbermann-is-stentorian\/","title":{"rendered":"PopVocab: Keith Olbermann is Stentorian"},"content":{"rendered":"

From People<\/em> magazine:<\/p>\n

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Keith Olberman’s “stentorian sarcasm can grow smug” (ooh, alliteration!), but he’s a “true political brawler.”<\/p>\n

Stentorian<\/a> means “very loud or powerful in sound,” but the word’s origin is much more interesting than that. In Greek mythology, Stentor<\/a> was a herald for the Greek side in the Trojan War. Homer said his “voice was as powerful as fifty voices of other men”!<\/p>\n

A brawler<\/i> is simply a person who gets into brawls<\/i>. A brawl<\/a> is “a noisy quarrel, squabble, or fight; or a bubbling or roaring noise; a clamor.”<\/p>\n

Similar to a brawl<\/i> is a fracas<\/a>, fray<\/a>, m\u00c3\u00aal\u00c3\u00a9e<\/a>, scuffle<\/a>, altercation<\/a>, or — if you are feeling very old-fashioned — fisticuffs<\/a> or donnybrook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Manhattan Prep’s blog is written by one of our real-live GRE instructors. She teaches in New York. To learn about Manhattan Prep’s classes, go here<\/a>. To suggest a word or topic for the blog, email jen@manhattanprep.com<\/a>.<\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From People magazine: Keith Olberman’s “stentorian sarcasm can grow smug” (ooh, alliteration!), but he’s a “true political brawler.” Stentorian means “very loud or powerful in sound,” but the word’s origin is much more interesting than that. In Greek mythology, Stentor was a herald for the Greek side in the Trojan War. Homer said his “voice […]<\/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-2191","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\/2191","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=2191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7238,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2191\/revisions\/7238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2191"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}