GRE Word List

LICENSE

permission to act

The meaning of the word license is permission to act.

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prosaiccharacteristic of prose as distinguished from poetry : factual
graphitea soft black lustrous form of carbon that conducts electricity and is used in lead pencils and electrolytic anodes, as a lubricant, and as a moderator in nuclear reactors
cankeran erosive or spreading sore
knolla small round hill : mound
espionagethe practice of spying or using spies to obtain information about the plans and activities especially of a foreign government or a competing company
ferociousexhibiting or given to extreme fierceness and unrestrained violence and brutality
mutilateto cut up or alter radically so as to make imperfect
disgruntleto make ill-humored or discontented
restivestubbornly resisting control : balky
blemishto spoil by a flaw