GRE Word List

ACTUARY

clerk

The meaning of the word actuary is clerk.

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chroniccontinuing or occurring again and again for a long time
somnambulistan abnormal condition of sleep in which motor acts (such as walking) are performed
defileto make unclean or impure: such as
petulantinsolent or rude in speech or behavior
gainsayto declare to be untrue or invalid
retiringreserved
motifa usually recurring salient thematic element (as in the arts)
referendumthe principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative
hindrancethe state of being interfered with, held back, or slowed down : the state of being hindered
ethnologya branch of cultural anthropology dealing chiefly with the comparative and analytical study of cultures