SYN: Benign, kind, tender, merciful, benevolent, compassionate.

ANT: Unkind, cruel, unmerciful, inhuman.

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KEY: Humanity.

SYN: Man, mankind, kindness, tenderness, compassion, sensibility, philanthropy, benevolence.

ANT: Unkindness, cruelty, inhumanity, bestiality, irrationality, barbarity.

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KEY: Humanize.

SYN: Civilize, ameliorate, enlighten, Christianise, refine.

ANT: Barbarize, degrade, debase, depress, brutalize.