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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| outstrip | to go faster or farther than |
| utopia | a place of ideal perfection especially in laws, government, and social conditions |
| roseate | resembling a rose especially in color |
| toga | the loose outer garment worn in public by citizens of ancient Rome |
| jab | to pierce or prod (someone or something) with or as if with a pointed object |
| unconscionable | shockingly unfair or unjust |
| abstain | to choose not to do or have something : to refrain deliberately and often with an effort of self-denial from an action or practice |
| sinister | singularly evil or productive of evil |
| allegory | the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truths or generalizations about human existence |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |