GRE Word List
ILLICIT
not permitted : unlawful
The meaning of the word illicit is not permitted : unlawful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| dirge | a song or hymn of grief or lamentation |
| unearth | to dig up out of or as if out of the earth : exhume |
| reimburse | to pay back to someone : repay |
| interjection | an ejaculatory utterance usually lacking grammatical connection: such as |
| precursor | one that precedes and indicates the approach of another |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| geniality | marked by or freely expressing sympathy or friendliness |
| loom | a frame or machine for interlacing (see interlace |
| pert | saucily free and forward : flippantly cocky and assured |