GRE Word List
PATHETIC
having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity
The meaning of the word pathetic is having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vain | having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance or achievements : conceited |
| gibe | to utter taunting words |
| frock | an outer garment worn by monks and friars : habit |
| cipher | zero |
| grotesque | a style of decorative art characterized by fanciful or fantastic human and animal forms often interwoven with foliage or similar figures that may distort the natural into absurdity, ugliness, or caricature |
| perpetrate | to bring about or carry out (something, such as a crime or deception) : commit |
| pander | to act as a pander |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| gleam | a transient appearance of subdued or partly obscured light |
| ineffable | incapable of being expressed in words : indescribable |