This week’s theme
Back-formations

This week’s words
lase
ablute
insurrect

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(in-suh-REKT)

MEANING:

verb intr.: To rise in revolt against a government or other authority.

ETYMOLOGY:

Back-formation from insurrection, from Latin insurgere (to rise up), from in- (intensive prefix) + surgere (to rise). Earliest documented use: 1694.

USAGE:

“He mentioned news of a recent slave insurrection somewhere in Virginia. ‘Oh Papa, What could I do if they decided to insurrect?’”
Lois Glass Webb; The Judge’s Daughter; AuthorHouse; 2004.

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