Mawson, C.O.S., ed. (1870–1938). Roget’s International Thesaurus. 1922.
Class I. Words Expressing Abstract RelationsSection VII. Change
1. Simple Change
146. [Sudden or Violent Change.] Revolution.
SPASM, convulsion, throe, revulsion; storm, earthquake, eruption, upheaval, cataclysm, transilience or transiliency [rare], jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, dash; explosion.
LEGERDEMAIN (trick) [See Deception].
REVOLUTIONARY, catastrophic, cataclysmic, cataclysmal, convulsionary, insurgent, Red, insurrectional, insurrectionary, mutinous, rebellious, sansculottic, bolshevist or bolshevik.