GRE Word List
COMPASSION
sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it
The meaning of the word compassion is sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| tangential | touching lightly : incidental |
| dally | to act playfully |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| unseemly | not seemly: such as |
| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| valediction | an act of bidding farewell |
| eccentric | deviating from conventional or accepted usage or conduct especially in odd or whimsical ways |
| cross | a structure consisting of an upright with a transverse beam used especially by the ancient Romans for execution |
| propinquity | nearness of blood : kinship |
| motley | variegated in color |