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 |
|---|---|
| nepotism | favoritism (as in appointment to a job) based on kinship |
| malapropos | in an inappropriate or inopportune way |
| lumen | the cavity of a tubular organ or part |
| nostalgia | a wistful or excessively sentimental yearning for return to or of some past period or irrecoverable condition |
| cynosure | the northern constellation Ursa Minor |
| burgeon | to send forth new growth (such as buds or branches) : sprout |
| inaugurate | to induct into an office with suitable ceremonies |
| noxious | physically harmful or destructive to living beings |
| cadet | a younger brother or son |
| masochist | a person who derives sexual gratification from being subjected to physical pain or humiliation : an individual given to masochism |