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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| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| reprisal | a retaliatory act |
| mnemonic | assisting or intended to assist memory |
| haggard | not tamed |
| rant | to talk in a noisy, excited, or declamatory manner |
| awful | extremely disagreeable or objectionable |
| petrify | to convert (organic matter) into stone or a substance of stony hardness by the infiltration of water and the deposition of dissolved mineral matter |
| queasy | causing nausea |
| stereotype | to make a stereotype from |
| imperial | of, relating to, befitting, or suggestive of an empire or an emperor |
| unguent | a soothing or healing salve : ointment |