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Compassion

/kəˈmpæʃən/
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(noun) Deep awareness of the suffering of others that people have to the point of them being motivated to relieve such states.

Nothing is as important as compassion.
Compassion is entirely absent from his character.
CEFR Practice Quiz
The nurse treated the elderly man with great care and ____.

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