Content Reading and Study Skills Week 7 Vocabulary

PATH;

LOQU, LOC

Make flashcards according to your teachers instruction so that you have a study tool and may earn credit for them on the
weekly quiz.

PATH = feeling, suffering (Latin root)

empathy (noun) feeling badly and having a
personal understanding of
another persons difficult
situation
sympathy
feeling badly for another
(noun)
persons difficult situation
pathos (noun)

antipathy (noun)
apathy (noun)

a quality in text, speech,

or visuals that evokes
feelings/emotion
strong dislike
not caring or feeling any
emotion, indifference (I
dont care.)

Because he had been unemployed before, John

empathized with his unemployed friend.

empathize (verb)
empathetic (adj)

Pam worked so hard during the season this

year; we all felt sympathetic when she lost the
championship match.

sympathize (verb)
sympathetic (adj)

The speeches of Martin Luther King Jr. are

brilliant examples of his ability to use pathos to
move an audience.
The teachers antipathy toward anyone who
disagrees with his political viewpoint was
obvious.
Voter apathy was to blame for low turnout on
election day. After I earned a D in math last
quarter, I found myself wishing that I hadnt
been so apathetic about doing my homework.

apathetic (adj)

LOQU, LOC = SPEAK (Latin root)

colloquial (adj)

describes informal or
conversational
speech/language

eloquent (adj)

describes a highly skilled

public speaker; fluent
speech
describes a talkative
person

loquacious (adj)
soliloquy (noun)
speaking alone to
oneself

a speech or monologue;
usually an actor speaking

Passing the buck is a colloquial expression

for shifting responsibility.
Using IM/texting abbreviations is too colloquial
for a school assignment.
Martin Luther King Jr. was famous for his
eloquence in his speeches. President Obama is
known for his eloquent speeches.

colloquially (adv)

I was lucky to go to the party with Tim, who is

very loquacious, so I did not have to make
small talk.

loquaciousness
(noun)
loquaciously (adv)

Hamlets to be or not to be speech is a wellknown soliloquy.

eloquently (adv)
eloquence (noun)

aloud to himself onstage

Suffixes Adding a suffix to a word changes the part of speech of the word. For the quiz know that ize makes the
word a verb.
-ize
verb suffix
sympathize, empathize, trivialize, scrutinize, publicize