GRE Word List
USURP
seize another's power or rank (without legal authority); supplant; appropriate; N. usurpation; CF. take for one's own use
The meaning of the word usurp is seize another's power or rank (without legal authority); supplant; appropriate; N. usurpation; CF. take for one's own use.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| withhold | refuse to give; hold back; Ex. withholding tax |
| emaciated | thin and wasted (from hunger or illness) |
| dispense | distribute; prepare and give out (medicines); N. dispensation: dispensing; religious system; official exemption from an obligation or a rule |
| incriminate | accuse of or implicate in a crime; serve as evidence against; cause to seem or make guilty of a crime; Ex. incriminating evidence |
| inveigh | denounce; utter censure or invective; Ex. inveigh against the evils of drink |
| exhume | dig out of the ground; remove from a grave |
| skim | read or glance through quickly; touch lightly in passing; brush; remove from the surface of a liquid |
| lush | (of a plant or grass) growing very well |
| deft | neat; skillful |
| generic | characteristic of an entire class or species; of a genus |
