{"id":965,"date":"2010-07-14T23:50:24","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T04:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.manhattangre.com\/blog\/?p=965"},"modified":"2019-08-30T16:53:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-30T16:53:46","slug":"visual-dictionary-incendiary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/blog\/visual-dictionary-incendiary\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Dictionary: Incendiary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand words.  Interestingly, just as &#8220;percent&#8221; means &#8220;per 100,&#8221; there&#8217;s a word for &#8220;per one thousand&#8221;: permille (also spelled permil, per mille, etc.)  There&#8217;s even a symbol for it: \u00b0.  So you could say that, in some cases, a word is 1\u00b0 of a picture.  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 style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-964\" title=\"incendiary\" src=\"\/\/manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2010\/06\/incendiary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/> <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/incendiary\">Incendiary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-966\" title=\"41UNue9WxOL._SL500_AA300_\" src=\"\/\/cdn.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/19\/2000\/41UNue9WxOL_SL500_AA300_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/> Also <a href=\"\/\/dictionary.reference.com\/browse\/incendiary\">incendiary<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>An incendiary (such as dynamite) can literally set things on fire, or an incendiary (such the rebels of the Boston Tea Party, or Thomas Paine&#8217;s pamphlet <em>Common Sense<\/em>) can incite people towards strife or revolution.  The word can be an adjective or a noun.  As a noun, it can be an object or a person.<\/p>\n<p>Consider this Antonyms problem&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>INCENDIARY:<br \/>\nA. mallet<br \/>\nB. peeler<br \/>\nC. extinguisher<br \/>\nD. conflagration<br \/>\nE. tenderizer<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;and this one.<\/p>\n<p>INCENDIARY:<br \/>\nA. lukewarm<br \/>\nB. inflammatory<br \/>\nC. fractious<br \/>\nD. diluted<br \/>\nE. conciliatory<\/p>\n<p>Look, one more!<\/p>\n<p>INCENDIARY:<br \/>\nA. ascetic<br \/>\nB. pacifier<br \/>\nC. revolutionary<br \/>\nD. legate<br \/>\nE. stoic<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Wow, <em>incendiary<\/em> has a lot of meanings!<\/p>\n<p>The answers are C, E, and B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes, a picture is worth a thousand words. Interestingly, just as &#8220;percent&#8221; means &#8220;per 100,&#8221; there&#8217;s a word for &#8220;per one thousand&#8221;: permille (also spelled permil, per mille, etc.) There&#8217;s even a symbol for it: \u00b0. So you could say that, in some cases, a word is 1\u00b0 of a picture. Welcome to Visual Dictionary, [&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-965","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\/965","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=965"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7472,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/965\/revisions\/7472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=965"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manhattanprep.com\/gre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}