{"id":56428,"date":"2015-06-10T00:09:31","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T07:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=56428"},"modified":"2015-06-10T00:09:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T07:09:31","slug":"word-quiz-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/56428","title":{"rendered":"word quiz"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t“Have you heard the latest goodies from the grapevine?” Jane teased with a twinkle in her eye.<\/p>\n

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Young Woman with Hat and Grapes by Pierre van Hanselaere, 1820, via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n

Sally shrugged.<\/p>\n

Yolanda yawned.<\/p>\n

But Nosy Nellie\u00a0just had<\/em> to know. She sidled up to Jane with her ears practically pleading. She couldn’t wait to gather the gossip and nosh on the natter \u2026<\/p>\n

Quiz:<\/p>\n

Knowing what you now know about natter-noshing Nosy Nellie, you might refer to her as which of the following?<\/p>\n

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  1. A zymurgist<\/li>\n
  2. A shadcan<\/li>\n
  3. A quidnunc<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Sufficiently stumped?<\/p>\n

    Well, while Nosy Nellie\u00a0may, indeed, study fermentation in the processes of brewing and distillation (zymurgist) or perform matchmaking in the old Hebrew style (shadcan), the most apropos label for the lady in this situation would be “quidnunc,” someone who is eager to know the latest news and gossip; a busybody.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    “Have you heard the latest goodies from the grapevine?” Jane teased with a twinkle in her eye. Sally shrugged. Yolanda yawned. But Nosy Nellie\u00a0just had to know. She sidled up to Jane with her ears practically pleading. She couldn’t wait … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gleaming_word"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}