My tenth word of the week is usurp.
According to my Mac dictionary, usurp means:
Verb: to take illegally or by force
Example sentence: The church had usurped upon the domain of the state.
I had not come across any words this week that jumped out at me as a word I did not know. Therefore, I went through some articles on Yahoo’s homepage to see if I could find a good word while reading them. I found two words that I had never heard before, so it was very successful. The first one I read was the word “usurped”. It was in an article about the Hollywood thefts that have been going on lately. The sentence read, “The thieves decided to usurp possessions of famous Hollywood starlets.” Even though this article was painful to read, at least I found my word inside it.
