Wednesday, October 05, 2011

Today's word

Actually, this isn't a word I didn't know, just one I've always (evidently) mispronounced:

Pathos - 1. an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion. 2. an emotion of sympathetic pity.

I don't know that I've ever said it aloud, but I've always mentally prounounced it as path-ose rather than pay-thahss.

Also, I was pretty frustrated by today's review word, seeing as I sent them a spelling correction about it because the WOTD link didn't match the spelling of the word it pointed to: preprandial.

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