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 |
|---|---|
| ascetic | practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and especially spiritual discipline |
| rectitude | the quality or state of being straight |
| husband | a male partner in a marriage |
| incipient | beginning to come into being or to become apparent |
| quarry | game |
| manifest | readily perceived by the senses and especially by the sense of sight |
| gregarious | tending to associate with others of one's kind : social |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| vulture | any of various large birds (families Accipitridae and Cathartidae) that are related to the hawks, eagles, and falcons but have weaker claws and the head usually naked and that subsist chiefly or entirely on carrion |
| inviolable | secure from violation or profanation |