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 |
|---|---|
| disenfranchise | to deprive of a franchise, of a legal right, or of some privilege or immunity |
| fatuous | complacently or inanely foolish : silly |
| codify | to reduce to a code |
| scoff | an expression of scorn, derision, or contempt : gibe |
| converge | to tend or move toward one point or one another : come together : meet |
| prude | a person who is excessively or priggishly attentive to propriety or decorum |
| astringent | causing a tightening of soft organic tissues : styptic |
| marrow | bone marrow |
| sunder | to break apart or in two : separate by or as if by violence or by intervening time or space |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |