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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| misapprehension | to apprehend wrongly : misunderstand |
| facade | the front of a building |
| conveyance | the action of conveying |
| oust | to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity |
| progenitor | an ancestor in the direct line : forefather |
| legend | a story coming down from the past |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| holocaust | a sacrifice (see sacrifice |
| ambulatory | able to walk about and not bedridden |
| disavowal | to deny responsibility for : repudiate |