GRE Word List
LARCENY
the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently
The meaning of the word larceny is the unlawful taking of personal property with intent to deprive the rightful owner of it permanently.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| discursive | moving from topic to topic without order : rambling |
| malingerer | to pretend or exaggerate incapacity or illness (as to avoid duty or work) |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| grandiloquent | a lofty, extravagantly colorful, pompous, or bombastic style, manner, or quality especially in language |
| crescendo | a gradual increase |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| throng | a multitude of assembled persons |
| partition | the action of parting : the state of being parted : division |
| erode | to diminish or destroy by degrees: |
| goad | to incite or rouse as if with a goad (see goad |