Estate plan
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verb
- Used to express futurity
- Used to express desire, choice, willingness, consent, or in negative constructions refusal
- Used to express a command, exhortation, or injunction
- Used to express frequent, customary, or habitual action or natural tendency or disposition
- Used to express probability and often equivalent to the simple verb
- Used to express inevitability
- Used to express determination, insistence, persistence, or willfulness
- Used to express capability or sufficiency
- Desire, wish
"call it what you will"
- To have a wish or desire
"whether we will or no"
noun
- A legal declaration of a person's wishes regarding the disposal of his or her property or estate after death
- Disposition, inclination
"where there's a will there's a way"
- Appetite, passion
- Choice, determination
- The act, process, or experience of willing} {sx
- Mental powers manifested as wishing, choosing, desiring, or intending
- A disposition to act according to principles or ends
- The collective desire of a group
"the will of the people"
- The power of control over one's own actions or emotions
"a man of iron will"
- Something desired
verb
- To cause or change by an act of will
"believed he could will himself to succeed"
- Intend, purpose
- Decree, ordain
"Providence wills it"
- To determine by an act of choice
- To dispose of by or as if by a will bequeath
"willed his entire estate to his son"
- To order or direct by a will
"willed that her property be divided among her children"
- To exercise the will
- Choose
"do as you will"
verb
- Used in auxiliary function to express plan or intention
- Should
"knew I would enjoy the trip"
- Used in auxiliary function to express consent or choice
- Used in auxiliary function to express probability or presumption in past or present time
- Used in auxiliary function to express a request with which voluntary compliance is expected
- Used in auxiliary function with rather or sooner to express preference
- Used in auxiliary function in the conclusion of a conditional sentence to express a contingency or possibility
- Used in auxiliary function in a noun clause (such as one completing a statement of desire, request, or advice)
- Used in auxiliary function to express custom or habitual action
- Could
"the barrel would hold 20 gallons"
- Used in auxiliary function to express doubt or uncertainty
- Used in auxiliary function to express wish, desire, or intent
- Used in auxiliary function to express willingness or preference
- Strongly desire wish
"I would I were young again"
- Wished, desired
- Wish for want
adjective
- Involving no exercise of the will involuntary
"will-less obedience"
- Not exercising the will
"life-benumbed, will-less characters"
noun
- Ignis fatuus
- A delusive or elusive goal
noun phrase
- The drive of the superman in the philosophy of Nietzsche to perfect and transcend the self through the possession and exercise of creative power
- A conscious or unconscious desire to exercise authority over others
This clue was used on April 3, 2025.
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