LICIT

PRONUNCIATION: (LIS-it)

MEANING: adjective: Legal or legitimate.

ETYMOLOGY: From licere (to be allowed), which also gave us license and leisure. Earliest documented use: 1483.
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LICE-T - If I object to his lyrics am I nit-picking?

LIXIT - what a five-year-old does to an ice-cream cone

L.I.CAT - Dude lives in Rockville Center