Word: Insurgency
Source: Yahoo News, "Colombia: Chavez funding FARC rebels" by Tony Muse
"But Colombia quickly struck back, revealing what it said were incriminating documents seized from the rebel camp that suggest its neighbors have been secretly supporting the leftist rebels' deadly insurgency."
Definition: in·sur·gen·cy [in-sur-juhn-see] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural, -cies for 4.
1.
the state or condition of being insurgent.
2.
insurrection against an existing government, usually one's own, by a group not recognized as having the status of a belligerent.
3.
rebellion within a group, as by members against leaders.
My Sentence: The attack on the Twin Towers was a horrific event that showed the insurgency of the terrorists in the Middle East.
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