{"id":728,"date":"2010-08-17T06:09:42","date_gmt":"2010-08-17T11:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=728"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:53:05","slug":"visual-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/visual-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Dictionary: Buttress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Welcome to <A HREF=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/index.php\/category\/gre-strategies\/visual-dictionary\/\">Visual Dictionary<\/A>, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-729\" title=\"buttress\" src=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/06\/buttress-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/06\/buttress-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/06\/buttress.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">This is a <a href=\"\/\/www.thefreedictionary.com\/buttress\">buttress<\/a>. \u00a0A buttress is a support built against a wall to reinforce it.<\/p>\n<p><i>Buttress<\/i> can also be used metaphorically, as a noun or a verb.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To score highly on the GRE essays, you should <em>buttress<\/em> your arguments with relevant and specific examples.<\/p>\n<p>She never wore her contact lenses; she felt that her image as an intellectual requried the <em>buttress<\/em> of a sharp pair of glasses.<\/p>\n<p>Before approaching the Princess of Monaco with his famous line, &#8220;Did someone leave the oven door open or did your face start a heat wave?&#8221;, he <em>buttressed<\/em> his courage with a gin and tonic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Visual Dictionary, a series of posts about words that are better expressed in pictures. This is a buttress. \u00a0A buttress is a support built against a wall to reinforce it. Buttress can also be used metaphorically, as a noun or a verb. To score highly on the GRE essays, you should buttress your [&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-728","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\/728","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=728"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7380,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728\/revisions\/7380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}