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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| queue | a braid of hair usually worn hanging at the back of the head |
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| affluence | abundance of property : wealth |
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| persist | to go on resolutely or stubbornly in spite of opposition, importunity, or warning |
| dowdy | not neat or becoming in appearance : shabby |
| supplicant | one who supplicates |
| granulate | to form or crystallize into grains or granules |
| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |