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 |
|---|---|
| creed | a brief authoritative formula of religious belief |
| cataclysm | flood |
| memorialize | to address or petition by a memorial |
| interim | an intervening time : interval |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| postulate | demand |
| occlude | to close up or block off : obstruct |
| bifurcated | divided into two branches or parts |
| treasure | wealth (such as money, jewels, or precious metals) stored up or hoarded |
| wily | full of wiles : crafty |