Crisis Freedom Day

Glossary of difficult words

to feed the beast - to give a large, immovable, powerful system whatever it wants, because no one has the ability or ambition to change anything about it;

to bicker - to argue about petty and trivial matters;

to backstab - to engage in criticizing someone in a treacherous way while pretending friendship;

to huff and puff - to complain noisily about something but to be unable to do anything about it;

hunch - a feeling or guess based on intuition rather than known facts;

anniversary of the Velvet Revolution - Nov. 17.