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 |
|---|---|
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| controvert | to dispute or oppose by reasoning |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| cavalcade | a procession (see procession |
| flit | to pass quickly or abruptly from one place or condition to another |
| pervasive | existing in or spreading through every part of something |
| impuissance | weakness |
| temperament | characteristic or habitual inclination or mode of emotional response |
| projectile | a body projected by external force and continuing in motion by its own inertia |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |