Humanities 8 Vocab Words Fall Week 3
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TindleyTigers on September 8, 2011
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Pathos | suffering |
| Antipathy | a hatred or dislike |
| Apathy | lack of feeling, energy, or interest |
| Empathy | the ability to identify with someone else and understand that person's situation of feeling |
| Pathological | referring to pathology, the study of disease |
| Pathos | a feeling of sympathy; a quality that arouses pity or tenderness |
| Miso | to hate |
| Misogamy | hatred of marriage |
| Misogyny | hatred of women |
| Dys | diseased, difficult |
| Dysentery | severe diarrhea |
| Dyslexia | a serious difficulty learning to read in the usual way |
| Cupio | to desire |
| Covet | to crave or desire, especially something belonging to someone else |
| Cupidity | greed, avarice |
| Placeo | to please |
| Placo | to soothe |
| Complacent | self-satisfied; smug |
| Implacable | impossible to calm or appease |
| Placate | to calm; to pacify; to appease |
| Placid | showing calmness, peacefulness, or composure |
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