GRE Word List

CONTRITE

feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc.

The meaning of the word contrite is feeling or showing sorrow and remorse for improper or objectionable behavior, actions, etc..

Random words

WordMeaning
clouta piece of cloth or leather : rag
pontificalepiscopal attire
commemorateto call to remembrance
debarto bar from having or doing something : preclude
jumbleto move in a confused or disordered manner
xenophobiafear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign
discordlack of agreement or harmony (as between persons, things, or ideas)
insatiableincapable of being satisfied : quenchless
unravelto disengage or separate the threads of : disentangle
spawnto deposit or fertilize spawn