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 |
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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 |