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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|---|---|
| fray | a usually disorderly or protracted fight, struggle, or dispute |
| rider | one that rides |
| hypothetical | involving or being based on a suggested idea or theory : being or involving a hypothesis : conjectural |
| archaic | having the characteristics of the language of the past and surviving chiefly in specialized uses |
| leave-taking | departure |
| log | a usually bulky piece or length of a cut or fallen tree |
| ratify | to approve and sanction formally : confirm |
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| panache | an ornamental tuft (as of feathers) especially on a helmet |
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