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Vocabulary Building Blocks: (59 Across) empathic (Adjective) Showing empathy or ready comprehension of others's states. (Empathy is identification with, and
understanding of, the feelings of another person. Empathy is similar to
sympathy, whereas sympathy generally refers to an understanding of feelings of
loss or sorrow. Sometimes one sees the word "emphatic" misused and misspelled in
place of "empathy". Emphatic means: forceful and definite in expression;
exclamatory; sudden or strong; or spoken with emphasis - not at all similar to
empathic.
Did You Know? (33 Across) Marilyn Monroe was the most famous
model of the 20th century, known world-wide for her poster pinups and movie
roles. Her likeness has been featured on a multitude of consumer products,
including US postage stamps. Her movie roles include co-starring with Betty
Grable and Lauren Bacall in How To Marry a Millionaire (1953); The
Seven Year Itch, released in 1955, in which she co-stars, along with
Kentuckian Tom Ewell; and Some Like it Hot, released in 1959, starring
Monroe, Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon.
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