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.
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Word | Meaning |
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fecundity | fruitful in offspring or vegetation : prolific |
bait | to persecute or exasperate with unjust, malicious, or persistent attacks |
strut | to become turgid : swell |
inchoate | being only partly in existence or operation : incipient |
bawdy | boisterously or humorously indecent |
sully | to make soiled or tarnished : defile |
millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
maternal | of, relating to, belonging to, or characteristic of a mother : motherly |
protract | to prolong in time or space : continue |
integral | essential to completeness : constituent |