GRE Word List
EMPATHY
the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner
The meaning of the word empathy is the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| shackle | something (such as a manacle or fetter) that confines the legs or arms |
| cajole | to persuade with flattery or gentle urging especially in the face of reluctance : coax |
| megalomania | a mania (see mania |
| humdrum | monotonous |
| wrath | strong vengeful anger or indignation |
| contaminate | to soil, stain, corrupt, or infect by contact or association |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| forebears | ancestor |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |