possess

“Yes, but it can possess any one of us whenever it wants to,” Ama says.

If something has gravitas, that means it is serious and possesses dignity.

She was glad he could not see her blush; what had possessed her to leave the house in her nightdress?

She possessed approximately half the number of teeth that one might expect to see in a person’s mouth.

Back then, when a Colored school needed a teacher, the principal would provide the state’s Colored college with the school’s requirements, and the college would send a list of recent graduates who possessed those qualifications.