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
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| recreant | crying for mercy : cowardly |
| permissive | granted on sufferance : tolerated |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| dawdle | to spend time idly |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| ablution | the washing of one's body or part of it (as in a religious rite) |
| proverb | a brief popular epigram or maxim : adage |
| fret | to eat or gnaw into : corrode |
| condescend | to assume an air of superiority |
| figure | a number symbol : numeral |