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decency
decency
n 1: the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and
morality [ant: {indecency}]
2: the quality of being polite and respectable


fluency
fluency
n 1: powerful and effective language [syn: {eloquence}]
2: skillfulness in speaking or writing
3: the quality of being facile in speech and writing [syn: {volubility},
{articulateness}]


latency
latency
n 1: (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of
data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write
head [syn: {rotational latency}]
2: the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to
it [syn: {reaction time}, {response time}, {latent period}]
3: the state of being not yet evident or active


licence
licence
n 1: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty
becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the
intolerable license with which the newspapers
break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke [syn: {license}]
2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable
rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech)
[syn: {license}]
3: a legal document giving official permission to do something
[syn: {license}, {permit}]
v : authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this
state" [syn: {license}, {certify}] [ant: {decertify}]


licenced
licenced
adj : given official approval to act; "an accredited college";
"commissioned broker"; "licensed pharmacist";
"authorized representative" [syn: {accredited}, {commissioned},
{licensed}]


licencee
licencee
n : someone to whom a license is granted [syn: {licensee}]


lucent
lucent
adj : softly bright or radiant; "a house aglow with lights";
"glowing embers"; "lambent tongues of flame"; "the
lucent moon"; "a sky luminous with stars" [syn: {aglow(p)},
{glowing}, {lambent}, {luminous}]


recency
recency
n 1: a time immediately before the present [syn: {recentness}]
2: the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
[syn: {recentness}]

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