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 |
|---|---|
| maelstrom | a powerful often violent whirlpool sucking in objects within a given radius |
| gruesome | inspiring horror or repulsion : grisly |
| redolent | exuding fragrance : aromatic |
| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| explicit | fully revealed or expressed without vagueness, implication, or ambiguity : leaving no question as to meaning or intent |
| chide | to speak out in angry or displeased rebuke |
| duration | continuance in time |
| spectrum | a continuum of color formed when a beam of white light is dispersed (as by passage through a prism) so that its component wavelengths are arranged in order |
| exiguous | excessively scanty : inadequate |
| ungainly | lacking in smoothness or dexterity : clumsy |