GRE Word List

INSURRECTION

an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government

The meaning of the word insurrection is an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government.

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WordMeaning
mammalany of a class (Mammalia) of warm-blooded higher vertebrates (such as placentals, marsupials, or monotremes) that nourish their young with milk secreted by mammary glands, have the skin usually more or less covered with hair, and include humans
solicitorone that solicits
downcastlow in spirit : dejected
secularof or relating to the worldly or temporal
featurethe structure, form, or appearance especially of a person
importuneto press or urge with troublesome persistence
scrapsfragments of discarded or leftover food
munificentvery liberal in giving or bestowing (see bestow
suppliantsupplicant
referendumthe principle or practice of submitting to popular vote a measure passed on or proposed by a legislative body or by popular initiative