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Vocab 6 definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 feelings |
| Pathological | referring to pathology, the study of disease |
| Pathos | a feeling of sympathy, a quality that arouses pity or tenderness |
| Misogamy | hatred of marriage |
| Misogyny | Hatred of women |
| Dysentery | severe diarrhea |
| Dyslexia | a serious difficulty learning to read in the usual way. |
| Covet | to crave or desire, especially something belonging to someone else. |
| Cupidity | Greed, avarice |
| Complacent | self-satisfied, smug |
| Implacable | impossible to calm or appease |
| Placate | to calm, pacify, to appease |
| Placid | showing calmness, peacefulness, or composure |