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 |
|---|---|
| shyster | a person who is professionally unscrupulous especially in the practice of law or politics : pettifogger |
| temporize | to act to suit the time or occasion : yield to current or dominant opinion |
| rave | to talk irrationally in or as if in delirium |
| diadem | crown |
| sundry | including many things of different kinds : miscellaneous |
| brook | creek |
| requiem | a mass for the dead |
| append | attach |
| efface | to eliminate or make indistinct by or as if by wearing away a surface |
| rational | having reason or understanding |