GRE Word List
HUMANITARIAN
a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist
The meaning of the word humanitarian is a person promoting human welfare and social reform : philanthropist.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| cognizance | a distinguishing mark or emblem (such as a heraldic bearing) |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| bristling | a short stiff coarse hair or filament |
| bacchanal | orgy |
| madrigal | a medieval short lyrical poem in a strict poetic form |
| tramp | to walk, tread, or step especially heavily |
| monotheism | the doctrine or belief that there is but one God |
| minuscule | very small |
| yield | to bear or bring forth as a natural product especially as a result of cultivation |
| nauseate | to become affected with nausea |