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 |
|---|---|
| culvert | a transverse drain |
| inhibited | to prohibit from doing something |
| anticlimax | the usually sudden transition in discourse from a significant idea to a trivial or ludicrous idea |
| illusive | based on or producing illusion : illusory |
| derivation | the formation of a word from another word or base (as by the addition of a usually noninflectional affix) |
| blotch | to mark or mar with blotches |
| sententious | given to or abounding in aphoristic expression |
| purchase | to obtain by paying money or its equivalent : buy |
| noose | a loop with a slipknot that binds closer the more it is drawn |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |