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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WordMeaning
rampa sloping way or plane: such as
instigateto goad or urge forward : provoke
truisman undoubted or self-evident truth
rebuketo criticize sharply : reprimand
effluviuman invisible emanation
plumagethe feathers of a bird
sartorialof or relating to a tailor or tailored clothes
spectralof, relating to, or suggesting a specter : ghostly
shunto avoid deliberately and especially habitually
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