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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| edify | to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge : uplift |
| monotony | tedious sameness |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| secrete | to form and give off (a secretion) |
| syllogism | a deductive scheme of a formal argument consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion (as in "every virtue is laudable; kindness is a virtue; therefore kindness is laudable") |
| partial | of or relating to a part rather than the whole : not general or total |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |
| excerpt | a passage (as from a book or musical composition) selected, performed, or copied : extract |
| favoritism | the showing of special favor : partiality |
| apostate | one who commits apostasy |