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 |
|---|---|
| drama | a composition (see composition |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| forego | to go before : precede |
| poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| redoubtable | causing fear or alarm : formidable |
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| intractable | not easily governed, managed, or directed |
| magnanimity | the quality of being magnanimous : loftiness of spirit enabling one to bear trouble calmly, to disdain meanness and pettiness, and to display a noble generosity |
| initiate | to cause or facilitate the beginning of : set going |