GRE Word List
ANNUITY
a sum of money payable yearly or at other regular intervals
The meaning of the word annuity is a sum of money payable yearly or at other regular intervals.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| blanch | to take the color out of |
| overwrought | extremely excited : agitated |
| anthropoid | any of a suborder (Anthropoidea) of higher primates (such as macaques and marmosets) |
| refuse | to express oneself as unwilling to accept |
| penumbra | a space of partial illumination (as in an eclipse) between the perfect shadow on all sides and the full light |
| idiom | an expression in the usage of a language that is peculiar to itself either in having a meaning that cannot be derived from the conjoined meanings of its elements (such as up in the air for "undecided") or in its grammatically atypical use of words (such as give way) |
| centrifugal | proceeding or acting in a direction away from a center or axis |
| ingrate | an ungrateful person |
| pucker | to become wrinkled or constricted |
| consistency | agreement or harmony of parts or features to one another or a whole : correspondence |