Word of the Day: ILLICIT

Not lawful or approved

illicit (adj) - illegal; not in accordance with law or custom [ih-lis-it]

BREAKDOWN: IL- (not) + LIC- (lawful)

• licit means in accordance with law; legal

COMMONLY CONFUSED: elicit means to call forth or bring out

“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.” —Thomas Mann