{"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:\/\/www.wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2013\/09\/monday-meanings-a-dearth-of-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday meanings: a dearth of life"},"content":{"rendered":"

For today’s Monday Meanings, I thought I’d follow on from Friday’s post<\/a> and my personal recent history by defining death and dearth.<\/p>\n

Apart from an obvious similarity in spelling with 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

Do you find these words similar or just words that happen to be spelt in a similar way?<\/p>\n

Death<\/strong> <\/span>(noun): the end of life, a cessation of being alive.
\nLiz was\u00a0completely alone at the lighthouse\u00a0after Jack’s death.<\/em><\/p>\n

Dearth<\/span><\/strong> (noun): a scarcity or lack of something
\nThere was a dearth of vegetation and colour in all directions.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Fear<\/a><\/p>\n

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For today’s Monday Meanings, I thought I’d follow on from Friday’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 […]<\/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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t