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..
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| primary | first in order of time or development : primitive |
| postulate | demand |
| befuddle | to muddle or stupefy with or as if with drink |
| tinge | a slight staining or suffusing shade or color |
| pachyderm | any of various nonruminant mammals (such as an elephant, a rhinoceros, or a hippopotamus) of a former group (Pachydermata) that have hooves or nails resembling hooves and usually thick skin |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| prime | the second of the canonical hours |
| tumid | marked by swelling : swollen |
| overturn | to cause to turn over : upset |