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 |
|---|---|
| supposititious | fraudulently substituted : spurious |
| tanner | one that tans hides |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| encomiastic | one that praises : eulogist |
| unfrock | defrock |
| unsullied | not soiled or tarnished : not sullied |
| prognosticate | to foretell from signs or symptoms : predict |
| lopsided | leaning to one side |
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