GRE Word List
ACTUARY
clerk
The meaning of the word actuary is clerk.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| adulterate | to corrupt, debase, or make impure by the addition of a foreign or inferior substance or element |
| perturb | to cause to be worried or upset : disquiet |
| acute | characterized by sharpness or severity of sudden onset |
| mar | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| axiom | a statement accepted as true as the basis for argument or inference : postulate |
| sarcasm | a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain |
| felicitous | very well suited or expressed : apt |
| sentinel | sentry |
| vertebrate | any of a subphylum (Vertebrata) of chordates that comprises animals (such as mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and fishes) typically having a bony or cartilaginous spinal column which replaces the notochord, a distinct head containing a brain which arises as an enlarged part of the nerve cord, and an internal usually bony skeleton and that includes some primitive forms (such as lampreys) in which the spinal column is absent and the notochord persists throughout life |
| titular | having the title and usually the honors belonging to an office or dignity without the duties, functions, or responsibilities |