GRE Word List
REMORSE
a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach
The meaning of the word remorse is a gnawing distress arising from a sense of guilt for past wrongs : self-reproach.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dulcet | sweet to the taste |
| antecedents | a substantive word, phrase, or clause whose denotation is referred to by a pronoun that typically follows the substantive (such as John in "Mary saw John and called to him") |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack (as in a cliff) : fissure |
| venue | locale |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| tacit | expressed or carried on without words or speech |
| affront | to insult especially to the face by behavior or language |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| abortive | prematurely born |
| retroactive | extending in scope or effect to a prior time or to conditions that existed or originated in the past |