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.
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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| breadth | distance from side to side : width |
| solvent | able to pay all legal debts |
| frenzied | feeling or showing great or abnormal excitement or emotional disturbance |
| pillory | a device formerly used for publicly punishing offenders consisting of a wooden frame with holes in which the head and hands can be locked |
| audacious | intrepidly daring : adventurous |
| faze | to disturb the composure of : disconcert |
| decry | to depreciate (something, such as a coin) officially or publicly |
| digression | the act or an instance of leaving the main subject in an extended written or verbal expression of thought : the act or an instance of digressing in a discourse or other usually organized literary work |
| supple | compliant often to the point of obsequiousness |
| absolve | to set (someone) free from an obligation or the consequences of guilt |