GRE Word List
HUMANE
marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals
The meaning of the word humane is marked by compassion, sympathy, or consideration for humans or animals.
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| Word | Meaning |
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| penology | a branch of criminology dealing with prison management and the treatment of offenders |
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| disband | to break up the organization of : dissolve |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| ecclesiastic | ecclesiastical |
| profusion | lavish expenditure : extravagance |
| sate | satisfy to the full; satisfy to excess; cloy |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |