GRE Word List
ILLICIT
not permitted : unlawful
The meaning of the word illicit is not permitted : unlawful.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| mincing | affectedly dainty or delicate |
| empathy | the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner |
| acrophobia | abnormal dread of being in a high place : fear of heights |
| gossamer | a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather |
| carillon | a set of fixed chromatically tuned bells sounded by hammers controlled from a keyboard |
| missive | a written communication : letter |
| pretentious | characterized by pretension: such as |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| copious | yielding something abundantly |
| wade | to step in or through a medium (such as water) offering more resistance than air |