GRE Word List
ILLICIT
not permitted : unlawful
The meaning of the word illicit is not permitted : unlawful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| corrugated | having corrugations |
| mountebank | a person who sells quack medicines from a platform |
| compassion | sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| infirmity | the quality or state of being infirm |
| appraise | to set a value on : to estimate the amount of |
| despise | to look down on with disrespect or aversion |
| bluster | to talk or act with noisy swaggering threats |
| insightful | exhibiting or characterized by insight |
| prosody | the study of versification |