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 |
|---|---|
| manumit | to release from slavery |
| depravity | a corrupt act or practice |
| swelter | to suffer, sweat, or be faint from heat |
| bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for defense : rampart |
| prescience | foreknowledge of events: |
| reprehensible | worthy of or deserving reprehension : culpable |
| knotty | marked by or full of knots |
| verbose | containing more words than necessary : wordy |
| minuscule | very small |
| diverse | differing from one another : unlike |