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.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| docile | easily taught |
| fervor | intensity of feeling or expression |
| lurk | to lie in wait in a place of concealment especially for an evil purpose |
| seasonable | suitable to the season or circumstances : timely |
| ambivalence | simultaneous and contradictory attitudes or feelings (such as attraction and repulsion) toward an object, person, or action |
| intermediary | mediator |
| putative | commonly accepted or supposed |
| materialism | a theory that physical matter is the only or fundamental reality and that all being and processes and phenomena can be explained as manifestations or results of matter (see matter |
| rancor | bitter deep-seated ill will |
| conceit | favorable opinion |