GRE Word List
INSURGENT
a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government
The meaning of the word insurgent is a person who revolts against civil authority or an established government.
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| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial material (such as stone or brick) |
| lucrative | producing wealth : profitable |
| credential | warranting credit or confidence |
| spoonerism | a transposition of usually initial sounds of two or more words (as in tons of soil for sons of toil) |
| clientele | a body of clients |
| swagger | to conduct oneself in an arrogant or superciliously pompous manner |
| jollity | the quality or state of being jolly : merriment |
| decrepitude | the quality or state of being decrepit |
| annihilate | to cause to cease to exist : to do away with entirely so that nothing remains |
| dispel | to drive away or cause to vanish by or as if by scattering : dissipate |