GRE Word List
OUST
to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity
The meaning of the word oust is to remove from or dispossess of property or position by legal action, by force, or by the compulsion of necessity.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| elicit | to call forth or draw out (something, such as information or a response) |
| exploit | deed |
| whim | a capricious or eccentric and often sudden idea or turn of the mind : fancy |
| fluster | to put into a state of agitated confusion : upset |
| unaccountable | not to be accounted for : inexplicable |
| gyroscope | a wheel or disk mounted to spin rapidly about an axis and also free to rotate about one or both of two axes perpendicular to each other and to the axis of spin so that a rotation of one of the two mutually perpendicular axes results from application of torque to the other when the wheel is spinning and so that the entire apparatus offers considerable opposition depending on the angular momentum to any torque that would change the direction of the axis of spin |
| paranoia | mental illness characterized by systematized delusions of persecution or grandeur usually without hallucinations |
| prop | something that props or sustains : support |
| pseudonym | a fictitious name |
| sensual | relating to or consisting in the gratification of the senses or the indulgence of appetite : fleshly |