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 |
|---|---|
| tawdry | cheap and gaudy in appearance or quality |
| delve | excavate |
| writ | something written : writing |
| unsightly | not pleasing to the sight : not comely |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| scrap | fragments of discarded or leftover food |
| impersonal | having no personal reference or connection |
| caste | one of the hereditary social classes in Hinduism that restrict the occupation of their members and their association with the members of other castes |
| alleviate | relieve |
| brood | the young of an animal or a family of young |