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 |
|---|---|
| nirvana | the final beatitude (see beatitude |
| avantgarde | group of artists whose work is based on the newest ideas and methods; CF. vanguard |
| phobia | an exaggerated usually inexplicable and illogical fear of a particular object, class of objects, or situation |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| agnostic | a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality (such as God) is unknown and probably unknowable |
| genuflect | to bend the knee |
| transmute | to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form |
| chaplain | a clergyman in charge of a chapel |
| braggadocio | empty boasting |
| visionary | having or marked by foresight and imagination |