GRE vocabulary
Eversion
A sudden and complete inversion of order, positions, or natural relations.
Example
"The sudden eversion of traditional social ranks during the peasant revolt bewildered the aristocracy."
Etymology
From Latin eversio ('an overturning, overthrow'), from evertere ('to overturn, destroy').
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