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DEFINITION: (adjective) Thrown into a state of intense fear or desperation.
SYNONYMS: panicky, terrified, frightened.
USAGE: Thousands of panic-stricken refugees fled the city.
Discuss

In the 1840s, a group of young Irish idealists began to promote Irish cultural nationalism. Known as Young Irelanders, they eventually sought revolution and, in 1848, organized a disastrous rebellion in Tipperary led by William Smith O'Brien and Thomas Meagher. Sometimes called the Famine Rebellion of 1848—since it took place during the Great Irish Famine—the Young Irelander Rebellion led to the ultimate failure of the movement. What events likely inspired the Young Irelanders to revolt? Discuss

DEFINITION: (adjective) Shaped like a kidney.
SYNONYMS: kidney-shaped.
USAGE: While hiking through the rainforest, I came upon an unusual reniform leaf and picked it up to study it more closely.