GRE Word List
CODIFY
to reduce to a code
The meaning of the word codify is to reduce to a code.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| ingenue | a naive girl or young woman |
| militate | to have weight or effect |
| succulent | full of juice : juicy |
| indeterminate | not definitely or precisely determined or fixed : vague |
| consequential | of the nature of a secondary result : indirect |
| discomfit | to put into a state of perplexity and embarrassment : disconcert |
| cosmic | of or relating to the cosmos, the extraterrestrial vastness, or the universe in contrast to the earth alone |
| strut | to become turgid : swell |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| exacting | tryingly or unremittingly severe in making demands |