Word List 54

Question 1

Root: feeling, emotion, suffer or disease

Answer 1

path

Question 2

(n) without feeling, a lack of motivation, and interest in activities

Answer 2

apathy

Question 3

(v) to be in the feelings of another and to feel those feelings deeply

Answer 3

empathize

Question 4

(adj) inadequate, of very low standard

Answer 4

pathetic

Question 5

(n) something that produces disease

Answer 5

pathogen

Question 6

(n) a doctor who specializes in the causes and nature of disease

Answer 6

pathologist

Question 7

(n) a quality in a situation that arouses a feeling of pity or sadness

Answer 7

pathos

Question 8

Root: together, with

Answer 8

sym and syn

Question 9

(n) something that stands for something else

Answer 9

symbol

Question 10

(adj) having the same or similar measurements to something else

Answer 10

symmetric

Question 11

(n) a change in a living thing that indicates the presence of a disease or other physical disorder

Answer 11

symptom

Question 12

(v) to make one thing happen with another or at the same time

Answer 12

synchronize

Question 13

(n) how words are put together to form phases, clauses, or sentences

Answer 13

syntax

Question 14

(adj) combined with other things to make something new or produce artificially

Answer 14

synthetic

Question 15

(adj) easy to teach or manage; obedient

Answer 15

docile