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 |
|---|---|
| doldrums | a spell of listlessness or despondency |
| biting | having the power to bite |
| discrepancy | the quality or state of disagreeing or being at variance |
| elysian | of or relating to Elysium |
| embezzlement | to appropriate (something, such as property entrusted to one's care) fraudulently to one's own use |
| delusive | likely to delude |
| bully | a blustering, browbeating person |
| eerie | so mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine |
| fictitious | of, relating to, or characteristic of fiction : imaginary |
| igneous | formed by solidification of magma |