{"id":129,"date":"2009-01-22T12:17:45","date_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:17:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=129"},"modified":"2009-01-22T12:17:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-22T16:17:45","slug":"similarities-between-spanish-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/similarities-between-spanish-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Similarities between Spanish words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Paronyms <\/strong>are pairs and sets of words in a language that may be easily confused because they are similar in form. Sometimes they are related in meaning and sometimes they are quite unrelated. Check them out!<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. abertura \/ apertura \/ obertura<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abertura <\/strong>= hole, gap, orifice. <em>Hay una abertura en la pared.<\/em> (There\u2019s a hole in the wall.)<br \/>\n<strong>Apertura <\/strong>= act of opening (as in an inauguration).<em> La apertura del congreso fue con una orquesta.<\/em> (They opened the conference with an orchestra.)<br \/>\n<strong>Obertura <\/strong>= overture (music). <em>La obertura de La Traviata.<\/em> (The overtura of La Traviata).<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. abrevar \/ abreviar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Abrevar <\/strong>= to water, to drink.<em> Los animals abrevan en el r\u00edo.<\/em> (The animals drink water from the river.)<br \/>\n<strong>Abreviar <\/strong>= to abbreviate, to shorten. <em>\u00c9l tuvo que abreviar su tesis.<\/em> (He had to shorten his thesis.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. acatar \/ catar<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Acatar <\/strong>= to obey, to respect. <em>Tienes que acatar la ley.<\/em> (You have to obey the law.)<br \/>\n<strong>Catar <\/strong>= to taste (esp. wine). <em>Su trabajo consiste en catar vinos.<\/em> (His job is to taste wines.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>4. aderezar \/ enderezar<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Aderezar <\/strong>= to prepare, to dress (salad). <em>Aderez\u00f3 la ensalada con sal y aceite.<\/em> (He dressed the salad with salt and oil.)<br \/>\n<strong>Enderezar <\/strong>= to straighten, to set upright. <em>Hay que enderezar esta verja.<\/em> (We have to straighten this railing.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. afrentar \/ afrontar<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Afrentar <\/strong>= to affront (insult). <em>No me gusta que me afrentes as\u00ed.<\/em> (I don\u2019t like you insulting me like this.)<br \/>\n<strong>Afrontar <\/strong>= to place (two people or things) face to face; to confront (danger, difficulties). <em>Afrontar un<\/em> <em>peligro o una dificuldad.<\/em> (Face up to a danger or difficulty)<\/p>\n<p><strong>6. agrupaci\u00f3n \/ grupo<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Agrupaci\u00f3n <\/strong>= association, gathering (political, religious, etc.). <em>Una agrupaci\u00f3n pol\u00edtica<\/em> (a political group)<br \/>\n<strong>Grupo <\/strong>= a group (general). <em>Un grupo de animales. <\/em>(A group of animals.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paronyms are pairs and sets of words in a language that may be easily confused because they are similar in form. Sometimes they are related in meaning and sometimes they are quite unrelated. Check them out! 1. abertura \/ apertura \/ obertura Abertura = hole, gap, orifice. Hay una abertura en la pared. (There\u2019s a&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"post-item__readmore\"><a class=\"btn btn--md\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/similarities-between-spanish-words\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-paronyms"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}