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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dichotomya division into two especially mutually exclusive or contradictory groups or entities
primto give a prim or demure expression to
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snivelto run at the nose
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sneakto go stealthily or furtively : slink
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exudeto ooze out
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