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 |
|---|---|
| mammal | any of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| presumptuous | overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy) : taking liberties |
| enormity | an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act |
| prong | fork |
| helm | a lever or wheel controlling the rudder of a ship for steering |
| vernacular | using a language or dialect native to a region or country rather than a literary, cultured, or foreign language |
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| coma | a state of profound unconsciousness caused by disease, injury, or poison |