GRE Word List
CODICIL
a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will
The meaning of the word codicil is a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will.
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| grumble | to mutter in discontent |
| facetious | joking or jesting often inappropriately : waggish |
| abash | to destroy the self-possession or self-confidence of (someone) : disconcert |
| hostility | deep-seated usually mutual ill will |
| defection | conscious abandonment of allegiance or duty (as to a person, cause, or doctrine) : desertion |
| sybarite | voluptuary |
| circumvent | to manage to get around especially by ingenuity or stratagem |
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| brusque | markedly short and abrupt |
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