GRE Word List
ILLICIT
not permitted : unlawful
The meaning of the word illicit is not permitted : unlawful.
Random words
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| 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 |
| centigrade | relating to, conforming to, or having a thermometric scale on which the interval between the freezing point of water and the boiling point of water is divided into 100 degrees with 0° representing the freezing point and 100° the boiling point |
| explicate | to give a detailed explanation of |
| effigy | an image or representation especially of a person |
| accelerate | to move faster : to gain speed |
| foment | to promote the growth or development of : rouse |
| reprobation | the act of reprobating : the state of being reprobated |
| unkempt | not combed |
| finery | ornament |
| ponderous | of very great weight |