{"id":843,"date":"2010-09-17T06:15:11","date_gmt":"2010-09-17T11:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=843"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:52:55","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:52:55","slug":"pop-quiz-the-life-of-the-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/pop-quiz-the-life-of-the-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Pop Quiz: The Life of the Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/06\/popquiz10-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"pop quiz\" width=\"200\" class=\"alignright\" \/>Pop Quiz!<\/p>\n<p>If I told you that my friend Javier is &#8220;the life of the party,&#8221; which words would be appropriate to apply to him based only on the information I told you?<\/p>\n<p>Make your choices, then click &#8220;more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>CONVIVIAL<br \/>\nPOMPOUS<br \/>\nTACITURN<br \/>\nVACILLATING<br \/>\nGENIAL<br \/>\nHETEROGENEOUS<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Javier is <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/convivial\">convivial<A> and <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/genial\">genial<\/A>.<\/p>\n<p>He probably isn&#8217;t <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/taciturn\">taciturn<\/A>.  We have no way to know whether he&#8217;s <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/pompous\">pompous<\/A> or <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/vacillating\">vacillating<\/A> based only on the information above.  And it doesn&#8217;t even make sense for a person to be <A HREF=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/homogeneous\">homogeneous<\/A>.  (Milk can be homogenized, and the population of Sweden is relatively homogeneous, but an individual can&#8217;t be homogeneous).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pop Quiz! If I told you that my friend Javier is &#8220;the life of the party,&#8221; which words would be appropriate to apply to him based only on the information I told you? Make your choices, then click &#8220;more.&#8221; CONVIVIAL POMPOUS TACITURN VACILLATING GENIAL HETEROGENEOUS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,13],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gre-strategies","category-vocabulary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843","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=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7357,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions\/7357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=843"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}