GRE Word List
ACTUARY
clerk
The meaning of the word actuary is clerk.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| prevaricate | to deviate from the truth : equivocate |
| retort | to pay or hurl back : return |
| tenet | a principle, belief, or doctrine generally held to be true |
| catalyst | a substance that enables a chemical reaction to proceed at a usually faster rate or under different conditions (as at a lower temperature) than otherwise possible |
| revulsion | a strong pulling or drawing away : withdrawal |
| sleeper | one that sleeps |
| anneal | to heat and then cool (a material, such as steel or glass) usually for softening and making less brittle |
| covenant | a usually formal, solemn, and binding agreement : compact |
| mammoth | any of a genus (Mammuthus) of extinct Pleistocene mammals of the elephant family distinguished from recent elephants by highly ridged molars, usually large size, very long tusks that curve upward, and well-developed body hair |
| decapitate | to cut off the head of : behead |