GRE Word List
ILLICIT
not permitted : unlawful
The meaning of the word illicit is not permitted : unlawful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| token | a piece resembling a coin issued for use (as for fare on a bus) by a particular group on specified terms |
| petulant | insolent or rude in speech or behavior |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
| hysteria | a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral (see visceral |
| parallelism | the quality or state of being parallel |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| incur | to become liable or subject to : bring down upon oneself |
| compromise | settlement of differences by arbitration or by consent reached by mutual concessions |
| assimilate | to take into the mind and thoroughly understand |
| iconoclastic | a person who attacks settled beliefs or institutions |