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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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| mischance | bad luck |
| incongruity | the quality or state of being incongruous |
| insightful | exhibiting or characterized by insight |
| irrevocable | not possible to revoke : unalterable |
| murmur | a half-suppressed or muttered complaint : grumbling |
| gnarled | full of knots or gnarls : knotty |
| sledge | sledgehammer |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| sacrilegious | committing or characterized by sacrilege : having or showing a lack of proper respect for a sacred person, place, or object |