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.

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compellingthat compels: such as
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commemorativeintended as a commemoration
sedulousinvolving or accomplished with careful perseverance
crevicea narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure
shoddya reclaimed wool from materials that are not felted that is of better quality and longer staple than mungo
pitha usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage
vintnera wine merchant
aberrantdeviating from the usual or natural type : atypical
backslideto lapse morally or in the practice of religion