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
hideto put out of sight : secrete
contraveneto go or act contrary to : violate
hoodwinkto deceive by false appearance : dupe
effectuateto cause or bring about (something) : to put (something) into effect or operation : effect
enervatelacking physical, mental, or moral vigor : enervated
salutaryproducing a beneficial effect : remedial
augurydivination from auspices (see auspice
deployto extend (a military unit) especially in width
sacrosanctmost sacred or holy : inviolable
centigraderelating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point