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 |
|---|---|
| ulterior | going beyond what is openly said or shown and especially what is proper |
| irrelevant | not relevant : inapplicable |
| knead | to work and press into a mass with or as if with the hands |
| cumbersome | unwieldy because of heaviness and bulk |
| convoke | to call together to a meeting |
| violate | break |
| marred | to ruin or diminish the perfection or wholeness of : spoil |
| pharisee | a member of a Jewish sect of the intertestamental period noted for strict observance of rites and ceremonies of the written law and for insistence on the validity of their own oral traditions concerning the law |
| amicable | characterized by friendly goodwill : peaceable |
| pedestrian | commonplace |