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Usage

• peruse

  If you peruse some written text, you read it over carefully.

• usurp

  When you usurp someone else's power, position, or role, you take it from them although you do not have the right to do so.

• usurious

  Usurious loans are made with a high interest rate.

• disabuse

  If you disabuse someone of an idea or notion, you persuade them that the idea is in fact untrue.

• usury

  Usury is the practice of lending money at an exorbitant rate of interest.