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 |
|---|---|
| disburse | to pay out : expend especially from a fund |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| dilatory | tending or intended to cause delay |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| discernible | able to be perceived by a sense (such as sight or smell) or by the mind : capable of being discerned |
| tremulous | characterized by or affected with trembling or tremors |
| millennium | the thousand years mentioned in Revelation (see revelation |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| retract | to draw back or in |