Wednesday, December 2, 2009

PHILOSOPHY & FEELING

EMPATHY/SYMPATHY

Explain the difference between "empathy" and "sympathy".
What part of speech is each word?
What other parts of speech can you make of each word?
Create sentences for "empathy" and "sympathy" to show their meanings.


A GOOD CONCEPT

Identify the author of the following epithet.

“There is no calamity greater than lavish desires.
There is no greater guilt than discontentment.
And there is no greater disaster than greed.”


TODAY'S WORD

The word for today is "pique".
What part of speech is "pique"?
Define "pique" and use it in a sentence.

1 comment:

David's Holla Atchya! Blog said...

Pique- not to be confused with 'peak'- means to spark or stimulate, as in, "His intereset was piqued at the thought of competing in the Scripp's Spelling Bee." It is an adverb. I believe that quote is by (American) President Hoover? That was a total guess, and I only guessed it because he presided over much of the Great Depression.