GRE Word List
USURP
to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right
The meaning of the word usurp is to seize and hold (office, place, functions, powers, etc.) in possession by force or without right.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| consonant | being in agreement or harmony : free from elements making for discord |
| commune | talk over |
| senility | the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age |
| beneficent | doing or producing good |
| vagary | an erratic, unpredictable, or extravagant manifestation, action, or notion |
| conception | the process of becoming pregnant involving fertilization or implantation or both |
| bate | to reduce the force or intensity of : restrain |
| discombobulated | characterized by confusion or disorder |
| palliate | to reduce the violence of (a disease) |
| penance | an act of self-abasement, mortification (see mortification |