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 |
|---|---|
| reprimand | a severe or formal reproof |
| fulcrum | prop |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| escapade | a usually adventurous action that runs counter to approved or conventional conduct |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| listless | characterized by lack of interest, energy, or spirit |
| clapper | one that claps: such as |
| detrimental | obviously harmful : damaging |
| compulsive | having power to compel |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |