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 |
|---|---|
| immure | to enclose within or as if within walls |
| bemoan | to express deep grief or distress over |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| sonnet | a fixed verse form of Italian origin consisting of 14 lines that are typically 5-foot iambics rhyming according to a prescribed scheme |
| orientation | the act or process of orienting or of being oriented |
| reprieve | to delay the punishment of (someone, such as a condemned prisoner) |
| rococo | rococo work or style |
| compilation | the act or process of compiling |
| contingent | dependent on or conditioned by something else |
| harbinger | something that foreshadows a future event : something that gives an anticipatory sign of what is to come |