{"id":3264,"date":"2010-06-23T09:14:44","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T14:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/?p=3264"},"modified":"2010-06-23T09:14:44","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T14:14:44","slug":"wondrous-words-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/2010\/20100623-3264.htm","title":{"rendered":"Wondrous Words Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Wondrous<\/a><\/p>\n

Join Bermuda Onion<\/a> and others as we explore the new-to-us words we’ve come across this week!<\/p>\n

1. Cynosure (\u02c8s\u012b-n\u0259-\u02ccshu\u0307r)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The cross is the pivot as well as the centre of New Testament thought. The exclusive mark of the Christian faith, the symbol of Christianity and its cynosure<\/em>.”
\n~Samuel Zwemer, quoted in John Stott’s The Cross of Christ<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Definition:<\/b> a center of attraction or attention<\/p>\n

2. Lycanthrope (l\u012b-k\u0259n-\u02ccthr\u014dp)<\/strong><\/p>\n

“If you asked me last week if I had anything in common with Twilight star Robert Pattinson, I would have said, ‘Yes, we\u2019re both bipeds, we have hair that borders on Conan O\u2019Brien height levels and we\u2019re constantly harassed by lycanthropes.<\/em>‘”
\n~Jon Acuff, from Stuff Christians Like<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Definition:<\/b> 1. a werewolf, 2. a person affected with lycanthropy<\/p>\n

3. Laboratory<\/em>oratory, availaboratory<\/em>le, elaboratory<\/em>orate<\/strong><\/p>\n

“He was a reconstructive surgeon and often performed liver transplants on children, but felt stymied by the lack of donor livers availabloratoryle<\/em>.”
\n~Winston and Oliwenstein from Superhuman: The Awesome Power Within<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Okay, this isn’t a serious new word. I’m just flummoxed at how an editor could miss three glaringly obvious additions of “oratory” to other words. All three of these were found within three pages. What on earth?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Join Bermuda Onion and others as we explore the new-to-us words we’ve come across this week! 1. Cynosure (\u02c8s\u012b-n\u0259-\u02ccshu\u0307r) “The cross is the pivot as well as the centre of New Testament thought. The exclusive mark of the Christian faith, the symbol of Christianity and its cynosure.” ~Samuel Zwemer, quoted in John Stott’s The Cross … Read more Wondrous Words Wednesday<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bekahcubed.menterz.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}