Life insurance. Life insurance (or life assurance, especially in the Commonwealth of Nations), is a contract between an insurance policy holder and an insurer or assurer, where the insurer promises to pay a designated beneficiary a sum of money (the benefit) in exchange for a premium, upon the death of an insured person (often the policy holder).
LINK / CITE ADD TO WORD LIST. adjective. The definition of sordid is something dirty, squalid or morally distasteful. 1  When someone is living in a filthy apartment with bugs everywhere, this is an example of living in sordid conditions. 2  A morally objectionable pornographic film is an example of a sordid film.
The term disease broadly refers to any condition that impairs the normal functioning of the body. For this reason, diseases are associated with dysfunctioning of the body's normal homeostatic process.orbidity (from Latin morbidus, meaning sick, unhealthy) is a diseased state, disability, or poor health due to any cause. The term may be used to refer to the existence of any form of disease, or to the degree that the health condition affects the patient.