1. Mutiny
• A rebellion against authority. Mutiny is a criminal conspiracy among a group of people to openly oppose, change, or overthrow a lawful authority to which they are subject.
Usage: Ser Alliser always hated Jon Snow and ultimately led the fatal mutiny against the 998th Lord Commander of the Night’s Watch.
2. Secessionism
• Secession is the withdrawal of a group from a larger entity, especially a political entity, but also from any organization, union or military alliance. Threats of secession can be a strategy for achieving more limited goals. It is, therefore, a process, which commences once a group proclaims the act of secession.
Usage: Chinese state media on Monday said Hong Kong was an inseparable part of China and any form of secessionism “will be crushed”.
3. Subterfuge
• Deceit used in order to achieve one’s goal.
Usage: He had to use subterfuge and bluff on many occasions.
4. Shoehorn
• Force into an inadequate space.
Usage: People were shoehorned into cramped corners.
5. Howling
• a) [Noun] a long loud emotional utterance
Usage: They drilled into the granite with power tools in the howling winds of a sudden thunderstorm, and eventually managed to secure it.
• b) [Adjective] extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers.
Usage: Wimbledon is a howling success every year, so is the London Marathon.
6. Irrefutable
• Impossible to deny or disprove.
Usage: Punching the air, in a rumpled suit and with his blond mop of hair askew, Johnson proclaimed: “Getting Brexit done is now the irrefutable, irresistible, unarguable decision of the British people.”
7. Blue-collar jobs vs white-collar jobs
• Blue-collar jobs are typically classified as involving manual labour and compensation by an hourly wage. Some fields that fall into this category include construction, manufacturing, maintenance, and mining.
Usage: Women dominate blue collar jobs in the Bangladeshi garment industry.
• A white-collar worker is a person who performs professional, managerial, or administrative work. White-collar work may be performed in an office or other administrative setting.
Usage: Many Puerto Rican mainlanders hold high-paying white collar jobs.
8. Political Chameleon
• Politicians who change their political beliefs based upon the people and corporations that give them campaign contributions or based on issues they need to support to get re-elected.
Usage: To party cynics, she may be seen as a political chameleon, reinventing herself to charm the voters.
9. Hitherto
• Until now or until the point in time under discussion.
Usage: Hitherto a part of India, Bangladesh achieved independence in 1971.
10. Antisemitism
• Antisemitism is hostility to, prejudice, or discrimination against Jews. A person who holds such positions is called an antisemite. Antisemitism is generally considered to be a form of racism.
Usage: The failure to acknowledge, never mind address, antisemitism is a moral scar.
