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 |
|---|---|
| unison | identity in musical pitch |
| flora | a treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period |
| grouse | any of various chiefly ground-dwelling birds (family Tetraonidae) that are usually of reddish-brown or other protective color and have feathered legs and that include many important game birds |
| defoliate | to deprive of leaves especially prematurely |
| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| nova | a star that suddenly increases its light output tremendously and then fades away to its former obscurity in a few months or years |
| beneficial | producing good results or helpful effects : conferring benefits (see benefit |
| guileless | innocent |
| pang | a brief piercing spasm of pain |
| infidel | one who is not a Christian or who opposes Christianity |