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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| laconic | using or involving the use of a minimum of words : concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious |
| touchstone | a fundamental or quintessential part or feature : basis |
| disapprobation | the act or state of disapproving : the state of being disapproved : condemnation |
| hem | a border of a cloth article doubled back and stitched down |
| intangible | not tangible : impalpable |
| sluggard | a habitually lazy person |
| fauna | animal life |
| saga | a prose narrative recorded in Iceland in the 12th and 13th centuries of historic or legendary figures and events of the heroic age of Norway and Iceland |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |
| foreboding | the act of one who forebodes |