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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|---|---|
| cozen | to deceive, win over, or induce to do something by artful coaxing and wheedling or shrewd trickery |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |
| pacify | to allay the anger or agitation of : soothe |
| recalcitrant | obstinately defiant of authority or restraint |
| reproach | an expression of rebuke or disapproval |
| unrequited | not requited : not reciprocated or returned in kind |
| abstinence | the practice of abstaining from something : the practice of not doing or having something that is wanted or enjoyable |
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| willful | obstinately and often perversely self-willed |
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