{"id":3207,"date":"2012-03-01T11:53:59","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/?p=3207"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:45:11","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:45:11","slug":"cheesy-mnemonics-for-gre-vocab-insouciant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/cheesy-mnemonics-for-gre-vocab-insouciant\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheesy Mnemonics for GRE Vocab: Insouciant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mnemonics or mnemonic devices are memory tricks to help us remember things like vocabulary words (here&#8217;s a post about the word <A HREF=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/index.php\/2010\/09\/06\/vocab-at-the-movies-johnny-mnemonic\/\">mnemonic<\/A>).<\/p>\n<p>However, many mnemonics are pretty cheesy &#8212; often involving the kind of jokes some people call &#8220;groaners.&#8221; For instance&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/insouciant\">Insouciant<\/a> means &#8220;free from concern, worry, or anxiety; carefree; nonchalant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the mnemonic:<\/p>\n<p><strong>My mother&#8217;s sister is so carefree, I call her my insouci-AUNT.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Groan&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- ddsig --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mnemonics or mnemonic devices are memory tricks to help us remember things like vocabulary words (here&#8217;s a post about the word mnemonic). However, many mnemonics are pretty cheesy &#8212; often involving the kind of jokes some people call &#8220;groaners.&#8221; For instance&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3202,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-3207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-verbal","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207","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=3207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7145,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3207\/revisions\/7145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3207"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=3207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}