{"id":43007,"date":"2025-09-26T10:12:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=43007"},"modified":"2025-09-26T10:12:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T15:12:22","slug":"word-of-the-day-1064","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/09\/26\/word-of-the-day-1064\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Pentad<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A group or set of five things or elements.<\/p>\n<p>EXAMPLES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The pentad of the five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and spirit.<\/li>\n<li>In linguistics, a pentad might refer to the five key aspects of a narrative.<\/li>\n<li>During the presentation, we focused on a pentad of essential marketing strategies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>[<a href=\"https:\/\/vocabdictionary.com\/english\/pentad\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Vocab Dictionary<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Noted in &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/style\/of-interest\/2025\/08\/03\/five-stars-survey-fatigue-feedback-ratings\/?utm_campaign=wp_post_most&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=newsletter&amp;carta-url=https%3A%2F%2Fs2.washingtonpost.com%2Fcar-ln-tr%2F43fa064%2F6890dcaacb0bd95496004738%2F59ee10d9ae7e8a504fd8ecd3%2F29%2F67%2F6890dcaacb0bd95496004738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Everybody wants your 5-star rating. Even your cardiologist<\/em><\/a>.&#8221; Ashley Fetters Maloy, <em><strong>WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Sometimes what\u2019s irksome is the sheer audacity. One X user described a delivery guy rooting around in her garage then asking for a five-star review; another was put off by a waiter who asked for one despite reeking of cigarette smoke. Many people have revealed their policies of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PetPeeves\/comments\/1jmsafg\/comment\/mkee2sj\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">giving negative reviews when asked specifically for positive ones<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/PetPeeves\/comments\/1jmsafg\/comment\/mkek18q\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">using surveys to complain about surveys<\/a>; some describe feeling harassed or badgered, even bribed or quid pro quo\u2019d into giving their experience the full pentad of approval. I, for one, remember that years ago a WaveRunner tour company in New Jersey withheld souvenir photos \u2014 me and each of my bridesmaids breezing past the Statue of Liberty, naturally \u2014 until I had left a five-star review on Google that mentioned the staffer who had asked for it by name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentad: A group or set of five things or elements. EXAMPLES The pentad of the five elements: earth, water, fire, air, and spirit. In linguistics, a pentad might refer to the five key aspects of a narrative. During the presentation, we focused on a pentad of essential marketing strategies. [Vocab \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2025\/09\/26\/word-of-the-day-1064\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43008,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43007\/revisions\/43008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}