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 |
|---|---|
| inordinate | exceeding reasonable limits : immoderate |
| trigger | a piece (such as a lever) connected with a catch or detent as a means of releasing it |
| amenable | liable to be brought to account : answerable |
| rhetoric | the art of speaking or writing effectively: such as |
| reverent | expressing or characterized by reverence : worshipful |
| evenhanded | fair |
| momentum | a property (see property |
| sheathe | to put into or furnish with a sheath |
| pyromaniac | a person who has an uncontrollable impulse to start fires : a person affected by pyromania |
| rotund | marked by roundness : rounded |