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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| reputable | enjoying good repute : held in esteem |
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| academic | of, relating to, or associated with an academy or school especially of higher learning |
| caprice | a sudden, impulsive, and seemingly unmotivated notion or action |
| cornucopia | a curved, hollow goat's horn or similarly shaped receptacle (such as a horn-shaped basket) that is overflowing especially with fruit and vegetables (such as gourds, ears of corn, apples, and grapes) and that is used as a decorative motif emblematic of abundance |
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| frieze | a heavy durable coarse wool and shoddy fabric with a rough surface |
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| slough | a place of deep mud or mire |
| gesticulation | the act of making gestures |