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 |
|---|---|
| apolitical | having no interest or involvement in political affairs |
| temperate | having a moderate climate which especially lacks extremes in temperature |
| institution | an established organization or corporation (such as a bank or university) especially of a public character |
| bloated | overfilled and extended with liquid, gas, food, etc. |
| satirical | of, relating to, or constituting satire |
| runic | any of the characters of any of several alphabets used by the Germanic peoples from about the 3rd to the 13th centuries |
| coincidence | the act or condition of coinciding : correspondence |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |
| dowse | to plunge into water |
| malaise | an indefinite feeling of debility or lack of health often indicative of or accompanying the onset of an illness |