GRE Word List
EXPROPRIATE
to deprive of possession or proprietary rights
The meaning of the word expropriate is to deprive of possession or proprietary rights.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| benefit | something that produces good or helpful results or effects or that promotes well-being : advantage |
| determination | a judicial decision settling and ending a controversy |
| implicate | to bring into intimate or incriminating connection |
| parvenu | one that has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignity, or manner associated with it |
| trepidation | a nervous or fearful feeling of uncertain agitation : apprehension |
| doctrinaire | stubbornly or excessively devoted to a doctrine or theory without regard to practical considerations |
| wrangle | to dispute angrily or peevishly : bicker |
| halfhearted | lacking heart, spirit, or interest |
| receptive | able or inclined to receive |
| slavish | of or characteristic of someone held in forced servitude |