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Narrator: Today's word is "Revolt" — noun, pronounced /rɪˈvəʊlt/, with the stress on "volt".
Narrator: A revolt is an attempt by a group of people to oppose or overthrow those in power.
Narrator: In plain English, it is an uprising.
Narrator: It comes from Italian rivoltare, to turn over.
Narrator: A common collocation is "peasants' revolt", which describes the English uprising of 1381.
Narrator: It differs from "protest", because a protest objects, while a revolt refuses to obey.
Narrator: In a second sense, a backbench revolt is politicians voting against their own party.
Narrator: History, politics, workplaces and literature all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: a revolt turns against authority.
Speaker A: Why did the vote fail?
Speaker B: A backbench REVOLT! It comes from Italian for turning over.
Speaker A: Their own MPs?
Speaker B: Forty of them.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "The Peasants' Revolt began in Kent", history. "Shareholders revolted over pay", business. "The revolt was crushed", war.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Revolt is also a verb, "revolt against", and "revolting" means disgusting, too.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Uprising is its cousin, rebellion its twin, and mutiny an alternative — yet revolt keeps its defiant charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "revolt" in AI prompts — useful for history lessons and game narratives.
Speaker A: How for history?
Speaker B: Explain causes.
Prompt: Explain the causes of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 for Year 8.
Speaker A: And games?
Speaker B: Build plots.
Prompt: Write a quest where villagers revolt against an unfair tax collector.
Speaker A: Could it help politics?
Speaker B: Yes, for news.
Prompt: Summarise this story about a backbench revolt in three neutral sentences.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Business news.
Prompt: Explain what a shareholder revolt is with a recent-style example.
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