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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
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| conifer | any of an order (Coniferales) of mostly evergreen trees and shrubs having usually needle-shaped or scalelike leaves and including forms (such as pines) with true cones and others (such as yews) with an arillate fruit |
| scapegoat | a goat upon whose head are symbolically placed the sins of the people after which he is sent into the wilderness in the biblical ceremony for Yom Kippur |
| anonymity | the quality or state of being anonymous |
| animated | endowed with life or the qualities of life : alive |
| lexicographer | an author or editor of a dictionary |
| sparse | of few and scattered elements |
| mercantile | of or relating to merchants or trading |
| courier | messenger |
| taint | to contaminate morally : corrupt |
| miserly | of, relating to, or characteristic of a miser |