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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citeto call upon officially or authoritatively to appear (as before a court)
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renegadea deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another
caliberdegree of mental capacity or moral quality
chapela subordinate or private place of worship: such as
penetrateto pass into or through
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matriarcha woman who rules or dominates a family, group, or state
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berateto scold or condemn vehemently and at length