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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| travail | work especially of a painful or laborious nature : toil |
| suspend | to debar temporarily especially from a privilege, office, or function |
| implausible | not plausible : provoking disbelief |
| derelict | abandoned especially by the owner or occupant |
| augment | to make greater, more numerous, larger, or more intense |
| induct | to put in formal possession (as of a benefice or office) : install |
| furtive | done in a quiet and secretive way to avoid being noticed : surreptitious |
| viand | an item of food |
| medium | something in a middle position |
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