GRE Word List
IMPENITENT
not penitent
The meaning of the word impenitent is not penitent.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| defile | to make unclean or impure: such as |
| wretch | a miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune |
| vignette | a picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper |
| affinity | relationship by marriage |
| renovate | to restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding) |
| inopportune | inconvenient |
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| turgid | excessively embellished in style or language : bombastic |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| effulgent | radiant splendor : brilliance |