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 |
|---|---|
| capacity | legal competency (see competence |
| supplicate | to make a humble entreaty |
| contrived | having an unnatural or false appearance or quality : artificial |
| indoctrinate | to imbue with a usually partisan or sectarian opinion, point of view, or principle |
| recount | to relate in detail : narrate |
| marshal | a high official in the household of a medieval king, prince, or noble originally having charge of the cavalry but later usually in command of the military forces |
| quaint | pleasingly or strikingly old-fashioned or unfamiliar |
| sustenance | means of support, maintenance, or subsistence : living |
| rare | seldom occurring or found : uncommon |
| oligarchy | government by the few |