Vocabulary Words 3-4
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- EMPATHY
- (N) capacity to participate in another's feelings.
- PARAMEDIC
- (N) one who assists or works beside a doctor.
- PARAPHRASE
- (V) restate in your own words
- PACIFIST
- (N) one who strongly, openly opposes war or conflict.
- APATHY
- (N) lack of feelings or emotions, indifference.
- COMPEL
- (v) to drive (force) or urge forcefully.
- PEDAL
- (N) a lever pressed by the foot.
- PATHETIC
- (Adj) causing feelings of pity or compassion.
- ORTHOGRAPHY
- (n) correct or "straight" writing and spelling.
- PENSIVE
- (adj) thinking deeply, heavy thoughts weighing you down.
- EXPULSION
- (N) the act of being forced or driven out.
- PEDESTAL
- (N) the support or foot of a column or statue.
- PENDANT
- (N) something like a necklace that hangs around neck.
- PENDULUM
- (n)something that hangs and swings freely under the action of gravity.
- ORTHODONTIST
- (N) a dentist who straightes teeth.
- PANDEMONIUM
- (N)wild tumult, uproar (all "devils" let loose)
- ORTHOGRADE
- (Adj) walking with the body upright or vertical.
- PACIFY
- (V) soothe, make calm or peaceful
- PANACEA
- (N) a remedy to cure all ills or diseases.
- PARABLE
- (N) short story to illustrate a moral point.