{"id":1744,"date":"2016-10-25T17:38:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/?p=1744"},"modified":"2016-10-25T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2016-10-25T09:38:49","slug":"word-of-the-day-compunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/2016\/10\/25\/word-of-the-day-compunction\/","title":{"rendered":"WORD OF THE DAY: compunction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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\n1. a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse.
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It might be supposed that he would feel some compunction<\/strong> at robbing his stepmother of her all. Whatever her faults, she was devoted to him. But Willis Ford had a hard, selfish nature, and the only thought that troubled him was the fear that he might be found out.
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compunction \\kuh m-PUHNGK-shuh n\\ noun 1. a feeling of uneasiness or anxiety of the conscience caused by regret for doing wrong or causing pain; contrition; remorse. 2. any uneasiness or hesitation about the rightness of an action. Quotes It might be supposed that he would feel some compunction at robbing his stepmother of her all. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":87,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-word-of-the-day","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/hanim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}