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.
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| mange | any of various persistent contagious skin diseases marked especially by eczematous inflammation and loss of hair, affecting domestic animals or sometimes humans, and caused by a minute parasitic mite compare sarcoptic mange |
| poseur | a person who pretends to be what he or she is not : an affected or insincere person |
| fatalism | a doctrine that events are fixed in advance so that human beings are powerless to change them |
| rostrum | an ancient Roman platform for public orators |
| immolate | to kill or destroy especially by fire |
| servile | of or befitting a menial position |
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| conformity | correspondence in form, manner, or character : agreement |
| detain | to hold or keep in or as if in custody |