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 |
|---|---|
| pendulous | poised without visible support |
| billow | wave |
| invocation | the act or process of petitioning for help or support |
| olfactory | of or relating to the sense of smell |
| amiss | in a mistaken way : wrongly |
| demotic | of, relating to, or written in a simplified form of the ancient Egyptian hieratic writing |
| ward | the action or process of guarding |
| contortions | to twist in a violent manner |
| swell | to expand (as in size, volume, or numbers) gradually beyond a normal or original limit |
| patrimony | an estate inherited from one's father or ancestor |