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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| inhibit | to prohibit from doing something |
| husbandry | the cultivation or production of plants or animals : agriculture |
| chant | to make melodic sounds with the voice |
| covert | not openly shown, engaged in, or avowed : veiled |
| fiasco | a complete failure |
| sonorous | producing sound (as when struck) |
| cower | to shrink away or crouch especially for shelter from something that menaces, domineers, or dismays |
| infinitesimal | immeasurably or incalculably small |
| incorrigible | incapable of being corrected or amended: such as |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |