GRE Word List
LICENTIOUS
lacking legal or moral restraints
The meaning of the word licentious is lacking legal or moral restraints.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| debut | a first appearance |
| contend | to strive or vie in contest or rivalry or against difficulties : struggle |
| refraction | deflection from a straight path undergone by a light ray or energy wave in passing obliquely from one medium (such as air) into another (such as glass) in which its velocity is different |
| figment | something made up or contrived |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| forthright | free from ambiguity or evasiveness : going straight to the point |
| piecemeal | one piece at a time : gradually |
| pathetic | having a capacity to move one to either compassionate or contemptuous pity |
| fringe | an ornamental border consisting of short straight or twisted threads or strips hanging from cut or raveled edges or from a separate band |
| bombardment | a late medieval cannon used to hurl large stones |