GRE Word List
PATHOS
an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion
The meaning of the word pathos is an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| annex | to attach as a quality, consequence, or condition |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| mangle | to injure with deep disfiguring wounds by cutting, tearing, or crushing |
| navigable | deep enough and wide enough to afford passage to ships |
| blasphemy | the act of insulting or showing contempt or lack of reverence for God |
| silt | loose sedimentary material with rock particles usually ¹/₂₀ millimeter or less in diameter |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| phenomena | phenomenon |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |