Exploring the Path Root: Meaning and Vocabulary

The video tutorial introduces the Latin and Greek root word 'path', meaning feeling or disease. It explores various words derived from 'path', such as telepath, empathy, sympathy, apathy, antipathy, pathology, and pathogen. Each term is explained with its components and examples to illustrate their meanings. The tutorial aims to enhance understanding of these root words and their applications in language.

What is the meaning of the root word 'path'?

• Far away

• Against

• Feeling or disease

• Study of

What does the word 'telepath' mean?

• A person who can sense feelings or thoughts from a distance

• A person who studies diseases

• A person who is against feelings

• A person who feels no emotions

Which word means 'to cause to feel what another feels'?

• Apathy

• Sympathy

• Antipathy

• Empathy

What is the difference between empathy and sympathy?

• Empathy is feeling against someone, sympathy is feeling without emotions

• Empathy is characterized by disease, sympathy is characterized by feelings

• Empathy is feeling with another person, sympathy is feeling what another feels

• Empathy is understanding how someone feels, sympathy is understanding why someone feels that way

What does 'apathy' mean?

• Study of feelings

• Without feeling

• Feeling against someone

• Feeling with another person

Which word describes 'feeling against'?

• Antipathy

• Empathy

• Sympathy

• Apathy

What is the study of diseases called?

• Antipathy

• Pathology

• Pathogen

• Telepathy

What does 'pathogen' mean?

• A person who can sense feelings

• Without feeling

• The study of feelings

• To cause disease

Why should one wash their hands according to the video?

• To show empathy

• To study pathology

• To get rid of pathogens

• To avoid telepathy

What does a forensic pathologist do?

• Studies feelings

• Performs autopsies to determine the cause of death

• Senses thoughts from a distance

• Shows empathy