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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| Word | Meaning |
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| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |
| transcendental | transcendent |
| eccentricity | the quality or state of being eccentric |
| pith | a usually continuous central strand of spongy tissue in the stems of most vascular plants that probably functions chiefly in storage |
| steadfast | firmly fixed in place : immovable |
| alliteration | the repetition of usually initial consonant sounds in two or more neighboring words or syllables (such as wild and woolly, threatening throngs) |
| problematic | posing a problem : difficult to solve or decide |
| gadfly | any of various flies (such as a horsefly, botfly, or warble fly) that bite or annoy livestock |
| rationalize | to bring into accord with reason or cause something to seem reasonable: such as |
| distinct | distinguishable to the eye or mind as being discrete (see discrete |