GRE Word List

PENITENT

feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant

The meaning of the word penitent is feeling or expressing humble or regretful pain or sorrow for sins or offenses : repentant.

Random words

WordMeaning
floraa treatise on or list of the plants of an area or period
trepidationa nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension
replicaan exact reproduction (as of a painting) executed by the original artist
adventitiouscoming from another source and not inherent or innate
gerontocracyrule by elders
puissanthaving puissance : powerful
mirthgladness or gaiety as shown by or accompanied with laughter
lanknot well filled out : slender
nascentcoming or having recently come into existence
debarto bar from having or doing something : preclude