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 |
|---|---|
| demographic | the statistical characteristics of human populations (such as age or income) used especially to identify markets |
| yen | a strong desire or propensity |
| potable | suitable for drinking |
| overweening | arrogant |
| prohibitive | tending to prohibit or restrain |
| yoke | a wooden bar or frame by which two draft animals (such as oxen) are joined at the heads or necks for working together |
| droop | to hang or incline downward |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| static | exerting force by reason of weight alone without motion |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |