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 |
|---|---|
| tutelage | instruction especially of an individual |
| repress | to check by or as if by pressure : curb |
| devise | to form in the mind by new combinations or applications of ideas or principles : invent |
| precipitous | precipitate |
| wispy | a small handful (as of hay or straw) |
| suppliant | supplicant |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| apocryphal | of doubtful authenticity : spurious |
| atavism | recurrence in an organism of a trait or character typical of an ancestral form and usually due to genetic recombination |
| unequivocal | leaving no doubt : clear |