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 |
|---|---|
| unfetter | to free from fetters |
| sensuous | of or relating to the senses or sensible objects |
| factitious | produced by humans rather than by natural forces |
| actuate | to put into mechanical action or motion |
| ignominy | deep personal humiliation and disgrace |
| effeminate | having feminine qualities untypical of a man : not manly in appearance or manner |
| traverse | to go or travel across or over |
| misanthrope | a person who hates or distrusts humankind |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |