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 |
|---|---|
| querulous | habitually complaining |
| flush | to fly away suddenly |
| functionary | one who serves in a certain function |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| remorse | a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| impunity | exemption or freedom from punishment, harm, or loss |
| perverse | turned away from what is right or good : corrupt |
| elated | marked by high spirits : exultant |