{"id":76,"date":"2006-06-11T14:00:30","date_gmt":"2006-06-11T21:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/2006\/06\/11\/word-of-the-day\/"},"modified":"2006-06-17T00:17:44","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T07:17:44","slug":"word-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/2006\/06\/11\/word-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weeks’s word of the week is “confabulate<\/a>” <\/strong>(by way of Ha’aretz<\/a>). Definition #2 is the more interesting one:<\/p>\n

con\u00b7fab\u00b7u\u00b7late (k\u0259n-f\u0103b‘<\/strong>y\u0259-l\u0101t‘<\/span>) \"pronunciation\"<\/a>
\nintr.v.<\/em>, -lat\u00b7ed, -lat\u00b7ing, -lates.<\/p>\n

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  1. To talk casually; chat.<\/li>\n
  2. Psychology.<\/em> To fill in gaps in one’s memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    [Latin c\u014dnf\u0101bul\u0101r\u012b, c\u014dnf\u0101bul\u0101t- : com-, com- + f\u0101bul\u0101r\u012b, to talk (from f\u0101bula, conversation; see fable<\/a>).]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

    Which reminds me: I forgot to about Friday abstract art blogging<\/a>! Or did I?<\/a><\/p>\n

    <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    This weeks’s word of the week is “confabulate” (by way of Ha’aretz). Definition #2 is the more interesting one: con\u00b7fab\u00b7u\u00b7late (k\u0259n-f\u0103b‘y\u0259-l\u0101t‘) intr.v., -lat\u00b7ed, -lat\u00b7ing, -lates. To talk casually; chat. Psychology. To fill in gaps in one’s memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts. [Latin c\u014dnf\u0101bul\u0101r\u012b, c\u014dnf\u0101bul\u0101t- : com-, com- + f\u0101bul\u0101r\u012b, to talk […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[613],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-of-the-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/sethinca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}