194: Revolt versus Revolting Jun 20, 2015

Revolt, as in "rise in rebellion", and revolting as in "causing a feeling of disgust" come from the same word. This may seem self evident, but at first glance these words do not seem to mean very similar things. The reason for that is that there are many more uses of this word that have fallen out of fashion: there is a sense of revolt that means "feel disgust", such as "she revolts from the pungent fish", but that sense is archaic.