{"id":409,"date":"2003-05-16T10:10:00","date_gmt":"2003-05-16T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2019\/02\/20\/chambers-of-vocab\/"},"modified":"2019-02-20T21:56:25","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T21:56:25","slug":"chambers-of-vocab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/2003\/05\/16\/chambers-of-vocab\/","title":{"rendered":"chambers of vocab&#8230;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rememember that game for the mac? Oh I do &#8211; lots and lots of fun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>1. Postprandial means: (a) occurring after a meal; (b) occurring<br \/>\n   after a surgical operation; or (c) occurring after meeting the<br \/>\n   Pope?<\/p>\n<p>2. Theorbo is: (a) an instrument for measuring the specific<br \/>\n   gravity of liquids; (b) a kind of stomach-pump; or (c) a 17th-<br \/>\n   century musical instrument like a large lute?<\/p>\n<p>3. Xebec is: (a) a long-legged burrowing rodent related to the<br \/>\n   guinea pig; (b) a musical instrument played by striking the<br \/>\n   strings with hand-held hammers; or (c) a three-masted<br \/>\n   Mediterranean sailing ship?<\/p>\n<p>4. Morpheme is: (a) a basic unit of language; (b) a sedative<br \/>\n   drug; or (c) a corrosive liquid used to etch the lines on a<br \/>\n   printing plate?<\/p>\n<p>5. Pisiform means: (a) fish-shaped; (b) pea-shaped; or (c)<br \/>\n   resembling an ant?<\/p>\n<p>6. Talaria are: (a) the filaments of blanket weed; (b) a nomadic<br \/>\n   people of Mongolia; or (c) winged sandals as worn by the god<br \/>\n   Mercury?<\/p>\n<p>7. Cribriform means: (a) perforated like a sieve; (b) shaped like<br \/>\n   a bed; or (c) constructed with a heavy timber framework?<\/p>\n<p>8. Boustrophedon means: (a) a mythical creature with the head of<br \/>\n   a lion and the body of a horse; (b) a one-sided Irish drum<br \/>\n   played with a single stick; or (c)  a method of writing in<br \/>\n   which the lines go alternately from left to right and right to<br \/>\n   left?<\/p>\n<p>9. Sitophobia is: (a) irrational fear of eating; (b) irrational<br \/>\n   fear of bats; or (c) irrational fear of sitting?<\/p>\n<p>10. Chichevache means: (a) the use of oriental motifs in<br \/>\n    furniture design; (b) a beef stew originating in Normandy; or<br \/>\n    (c) a fabulous monster that lives only on patient wives and<br \/>\n    that was, therefore, all skin and bone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rememember that game for the mac? Oh I do &#8211; lots and lots of fun&#8230; 1. Postprandial means: (a) occurring after a meal; (b) occurring<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[80],"class_list":["post-409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-chat","hentry","tag-geeky","post_format-post-format-chat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2982,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409\/revisions\/2982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delascabezas.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}