GRE Word List
PERMISSIVE
granted on sufferance : tolerated
The meaning of the word permissive is granted on sufferance : tolerated.
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|---|---|
| conjugal | of or relating to the married state or to married persons and their relations : connubial |
| hardy | bold |
| chafe | irritate |
| trickle | to issue or fall in drops |
| fell | skin |
| diverge | to move or extend in different directions from a common point : draw apart |
| nefarious | flagrantly wicked or impious : evil |
| monastic | of or relating to monasteries or to monks or nuns |
| perspicacious | of acute mental vision or discernment : keen |
| argot | the language used by a particular type or group of people : an often more or less secret vocabulary and idiom peculiar to a particular group |