Vocabulary Word
Word: empathy
Definition: ability to identify with another's feelings, ideas, etc.; identification with and understanding of another's feelings; V. empathize; CF. sympathy
Definition: ability to identify with another's feelings, ideas, etc.; identification with and understanding of another's feelings; V. empathize; CF. sympathy
More Vocab Words
::: sledge - large sled drawn by work animals::: evanescent - fleeting; vanishing; soon disappearing; V. evanesce
::: rigid - hard and unbending; stiff and unyielding; fixed in behavior or views; strict; rigorous; Ex. rigid rule
::: berate - scold strongly
::: palpitate - throb; beat rapidly; flutter; tremble; Ex. Her heart began to palpitate.
::: slaughter - killing of animals for food; massacre; V: butcher (animals) for food; kill in large numbers
::: discernible - distinguishable; perceivable; Ex. discernible improvement
::: authoritarian - subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will; Ex. authoritarian regime/father
::: atheistic - denying the existence of God; N. atheism
::: leniency - mildness; permissiveness; ADJ. lenient: not severe in judgment or punishment
