GRE Word List

IMPENITENT

not penitent

The meaning of the word impenitent is not penitent.

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WordMeaning
defileto make unclean or impure: such as
wretcha miserable person : one who is profoundly unhappy or in great misfortune
vignettea picture (such as an engraving or photograph) that shades off gradually into the surrounding paper
affinityrelationship by marriage
renovateto restore to a former better state (as by cleaning, repairing, or rebuilding)
inopportuneinconvenient
shystera person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger
turgidexcessively embellished in style or language : bombastic
gyroscopea 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
effulgentradiant splendor : brilliance