{"id":6288,"date":"2013-09-30T10:28:31","date_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=6288"},"modified":"2013-09-30T10:28:31","modified_gmt":"2013-09-30T00:28:31","slug":"monday-meanings-a-dearth-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2013\/09\/monday-meanings-a-dearth-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday meanings: a dearth of life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s Monday Meanings, I thought I&#8217;d <a title=\"A rose by any other name\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2013\/09\/rose-by-another-name\/\" target=\"_blank\">follow on from Friday&#8217;s post<\/a> and my personal recent history by defining death and dearth.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from an obvious similarity in spelling with <a title=\"One little letter\u2026\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2009\/10\/one-little-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\">one letter difference<\/a>, death and dearth do have a certain similarity in meaning too. neither is a cheerful word and both are about a lack or loss. To me, both give the impression of barrenness, isolation and gloom.<\/p>\n<p>Do you find these words similar or just words that happen to be spelt in a similar way?<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>Death<\/strong> <\/span>(noun): the end of life, a cessation of being alive.<br \/>\n<em>Liz was\u00a0completely alone at the lighthouse\u00a0after Jack&#8217;s death.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Dearth<\/span><\/strong> (noun): a scarcity or lack of something<br \/>\n<em>There was a dearth of vegetation and colour in all directions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fear_death_live.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6291\" alt=\"Fear of death follows from the fear of life. Mark Twain\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fear_death_live.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"394\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fear_death_live.jpg 540w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fear_death_live-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/fear_death_live-150x109.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For today&#8217;s Monday Meanings, I thought I&#8217;d follow on from Friday&#8217;s post and my personal recent history by defining death and dearth. Apart from an obvious similarity in spelling with one letter difference, death and dearth do have a certain similarity in meaning too. neither is a cheerful word and both are about a lack [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[1673,1672,297,1669,119],"class_list":["post-6288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monday-meanings","tag-dearth","tag-death","tag-definition","tag-die","tag-meaning"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6288"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6296,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6288\/revisions\/6296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}