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 |
|---|---|
| immutable | not capable of or susceptible to change |
| deface | to mar the appearance of : injure by effacing significant details |
| desecrate | to violate the sanctity of : profane |
| exorcise | to expel (an evil spirit) by adjuration |
| environ | encircle |
| proclivity | an inclination or predisposition toward something |
| rejoinder | the defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication |
| evocative | evoking or tending to evoke an especially emotional response |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| minutiae | a minute or minor detail |