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2. Path – to feel or suffer Rog – to ask Vit – life Mut – change Par - equal

3. Pathos -feelings (noun) Without pathos, humans could not relate to one another.

4. Pathological - compulsive behavior (adj) When someone is a pathological liar, he is not trusted by anyone, yet he cannot stop himself from lying.

5. Apathetic-showing little or no emotion (adj)

6. Nothing irritates a teacher more than a student who is a apathetic and doesn’t care about his or her education..

7. Derogative –questioning one’s worth; belittling (adj) People who stereotype others tend to believe derogative statements about a whole group without really knowing anything about the people as individuals.

8. Imbroglio – questionable situation (noun) Stuck on a rock, with no easy exit in sight, the sheep’s imbroglio led onlookers to wonder how it would resolve the situation.

9. Interrogation – noun – a questioning After lengthy interrogation, I finally admitted to Mom that I ate the last brownie, not my little sister who I tried to blame.

10. Vital – adjective – necessary for life Making time to relax is vital to one’s mental health.

11. Vitriol – noun – cruel and bitter criticism Rather than words of praise or kindness, Amy’s holiday turkey elicited nothing but vitriol from her mother-in-law.

12. Vivify – verb – to endue with life Dr. Frankenstein’s goal was to vivify inanimate flesh and bring life to his very own creature.

13. Mutation – noun – the act or process of change I was amazed by the caterpillar’s mutation into a butterfly.

14. Transmute – verb – to change or alter in form In Transformers, aliens transmute their shape from basic vehicles into amazing mechanical life forms.

15. Shifting word meanings show how fluid and mutable our language is. Traditional MeaningModern Meaning

16. Disparate – adjective – not equal Disparate economic levels led to the French Revolution where hungry peasants rose against the nobility.

17. Saturday Night Live often does parodies of famous people.

18. Surprisingly, Buddy never felt like a pariah even though he clearly did not fit in with his family.