Qualities
Synonyms for pathos
The synonym for pathos recorded in this bank is poignancy, in the sense "a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.
The synonym for pathos
- poignancynoun, in the sense "a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)"
One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day pathos is audited in a second meaning.
a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow)
The film captured all the pathos of their situation.
The true synonym
poignancy
Same sentence, swapped: The film captured all the poignancy of their situation.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- ruth
- regularity
- ethnicity
Where pathos turns up in the game
pathos is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in one other puzzle, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzle where pathos is the trap
- eloquencenoun, Tier 4, High Camp. The answer there is smoothness, in the sense "powerful and effective language", and pathos is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play pathos
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so pathos reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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The ring widens as it goes, from qualities at Summit outward to the whole bank.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. pathos carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.