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 |
|---|---|
| grievance | a cause of distress (such as an unsatisfactory working condition) felt to afford reason for complaint or resistance |
| inured | to accustom to accept something undesirable |
| raucous | disagreeably harsh or strident : hoarse |
| dally | to act playfully |
| eddy | a current of water or air running contrary to the main current |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| multifarious | having or occurring in great variety : diverse |
| rag | a waste piece of cloth |
| inverse | opposite in order, nature, or effect |