GRE Word List
GOSSAMER
a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather
The meaning of the word gossamer is a film of cobwebs floating in air in calm clear weather.
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| codicil | a legal instrument made to modify an earlier will |
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| promote | to advance in station, rank, or honor : raise |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| contrivance | a thing contrived |
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