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 |
|---|---|
| swindler | to obtain money or property by fraud or deceit |
| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
| distinctive | marking as separate or different : serving to distinguish |
| raze | to destroy to the ground : demolish |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| unctuous | having, revealing, or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality |
| impious | not pious : lacking in reverence or proper respect (as for God or one's parents) : irreverent |
| rasp | to rub with something rough |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| start | to move suddenly and violently : spring |