GRE Word List

ACTUARY

clerk

The meaning of the word actuary is clerk.

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etymologythe history of a linguistic form (such as a word) shown by tracing its development since its earliest recorded occurrence in the language where it is found, by tracing its transmission from one language to another, by analyzing it into its component parts, by identifying its cognates in other languages, or by tracing it and its cognates to a common ancestral form in an ancestral language
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snickerto laugh in a covert or partly suppressed manner : titter
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