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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| indissoluble | not dissoluble |
| hirsute | hairy |
| forge | a furnace or a shop with its furnace where metal is heated and wrought : smithy |
| preempt | to acquire (something, such as land) by preemption |
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