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.
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| ellipsis | the omission of one or more words that are obviously understood but that must be supplied to make a construction grammatically complete |
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