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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cull | to select from a group : choose |
| throttle | to compress the throat of : choke |
| egotism | excessive use of the first person singular personal pronoun |
| culprit | one accused of or charged with a crime |
| knack | a special ready capacity that is hard to analyze or teach |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| smug | highly self-satisfied |
| compensatory | to be equivalent to : counterbalance |
| sleight | deceitful craftiness |
| passe | past one's prime |