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 |
|---|---|
| repartee | a quick and witty reply |
| stratum | a bed or layer artificially made |
| nicety | the quality or state of being nice |
| surreptitious | done, made, or acquired by stealth : clandestine |
| flux | a flowing of fluid from the body: such as |
| whet | to sharpen by rubbing on or with something (such as a stone) |
| jubilation | an act of rejoicing : the state of being jubilant |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| passe | past one's prime |
| solstice | either of the two points on the ecliptic at which its distance from the celestial equator is greatest and which is reached by the sun each year about June 21 and December 21 |