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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| comeuppance | a deserved rebuke or penalty : deserts |
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| adversity | a state or instance of serious or continued difficulty or misfortune |
| inconsequential | of no significance : unimportant |
| circlet | a little circle |
| gavel | rent or tribute in medieval England |
| trim | to remove by or as if by cutting |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |
| machinations | an act of machinating |