{"id":2776,"date":"2012-04-24T07:56:34","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T11:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/?p=2776"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:45:03","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:45:03","slug":"flashcard-sneak-peek-propitious-versus-auspicious-oh-those-crazy-romans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/flashcard-sneak-peek-propitious-versus-auspicious-oh-those-crazy-romans\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashcard Sneak Peek: Propitious versus Auspicious (Oh, Those Crazy Romans!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Take a sneak peek into Manhattan Prep&#8217;s <A HREF=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/storeitemshow.cfm?ItemID=104\">500 Essential Words<\/A> and <A HREF=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/storeitemshow.cfm?ItemID=103\">500 Advanced Words<\/A> GRE flashcard sets!<\/p>\n<p>Why does <i>propitiate<\/i> mean <i>conciliate, appease<\/i>, but <i>propitious<\/i> means <i>lucky<\/i>? You&#8217;ll have to ask some superstitious Romans (or just read our flashcards). Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/12\/propitious.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"propitious\" width=\"500\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2792\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/12\/propitious.jpg 622w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2011\/12\/propitious-237x300.jpg 237w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 622px) 100vw, 622px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Want to adopt 1,000 new flashcards? Visit our store <A HREF=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/store.cfm\">here<\/A>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a sneak peek into Manhattan Prep&#8217;s 500 Essential Words and 500 Advanced Words GRE flashcard sets! Why does propitiate mean conciliate, appease, but propitious means lucky? You&#8217;ll have to ask some superstitious Romans (or just read our flashcards). Check it out: Want to adopt 1,000 new flashcards? Visit our store here.<\/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-2776","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\/2776","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=2776"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7118,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2776\/revisions\/7118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2776"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}