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 |
|---|---|
| tessellated | having a checkered appearance |
| lampoon | satire |
| verbalize | to express something in words |
| putrid | being in a state of putrefaction : rotten |
| sardonic | disdainfully or skeptically humorous : derisively mocking |
| incline | to bend the head or body forward : bow |
| monumental | serving as or resembling a monument : massive |
| idolatry | the worship of a physical object as a god |
| proletarian | a member of the proletariat |
| qualify | to reduce from a general to a particular or restricted form : modify |