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 |
|---|---|
| archetype | the original pattern or model of which all things of the same type are representations or copies : prototype |
| hedonist | a person who is devoted to the pursuit of pleasure : someone who practices hedonism |
| secular | of or relating to the worldly or temporal |
| canard | a false or unfounded report or story |
| analogy | a comparison of two otherwise unlike things based on resemblance of a particular aspect |
| voluptuous | suggesting sensual pleasure by fullness and beauty of form |
| wean | to accustom (a young child or animal) to take food otherwise than by nursing |
| peroration | the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration |
| browse | to eat (tender shoots, twigs, leaves of trees and shrubs, etc.) : to consume as browse (see browse |
| obese | having excessive body fat |