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 |
|---|---|
| unruly | not readily ruled, disciplined, or managed |
| wheedle | to influence or entice by soft words or flattery |
| caldron | a large kettle or boiler |
| quaff | to drink (a usually alcoholic beverage) heartily or copiously |
| eloquence | discourse marked by force and persuasiveness |
| gouge | a chisel with a concavo-convex cross section |
| grandiose | characterized by affectation of grandeur or splendor or by absurd exaggeration |
| palm | any of a family (Palmae synonym Arecaceae) of mostly tropical or subtropical monocotyledonous trees, shrubs, or vines with usually a simple stem and a terminal crown of large pinnate or fan-shaped leaves |
| ambrosia | the food of the Greek and Roman gods |
| earthly | characteristic of or belonging to this earth |