Tohubohu
Noun
Meaning: A state of chaos; utter confusion; mayhem; pandemonium.
Usage: The political party is in a state of tohubohu. The whole European Union vote is a tohubohu. I’ve never seen such a mess Contemporary politics is designed to be a tohubohu which is deliberately confusing and chaotic.
Rumpus
Noun
Meaning: Commotion; a noisy disturbance; brouhaha; hue and cry; fracas; brawl; scuffle; altercation.
Usage: She caused rumpus with her flair for troublemaking.The kids made a rumpus and woke up everyone else in the house. The recent stock market rumpus has been set off due to the new economic reforms.
Metanoia
Noun
Meaning: Change in one’s way of life due to penitence or spiritual conversion; a transformative change of heart, especially a spiritual conversion; the journey of changing one’s heart, mind, self or way of life.
Usage: The monk demanded metanoia, repentance and a complete change of heart from people.A moment of metanoia, a change of the inner self is required.
Green-collar
Adjective
Meaning: Of, relating to or involving actions for protecting the natural environment; green-collar jobs; a green-collar worker is an employee of the environmental sector who focuses on sustainability and conservation; it can range from renewable energy, energy efficiency, to policy, design, education and technological development.Denoting or relating to employment concerned with products and services designed to improve the quality of the environment.
Usage: According to the PM in the near future over 5 million green-collar jobs will be created .The much touted green-collar jobs program of the government will put people to work in the community.The business tycoon wanted to invest in clean energy jobs, green-collar jobs.According to the report many of the green-collar jobs will be taken by the blue-collar construction workers.
Epiphany
Noun
Meaning: A moment of sudden and great revelation or realization; manifestation or striking appearance.
Usage: She had a sudden epiphany and slipped her hands nonchalantly into her pockets.My maternal grandfather’s death was like an epiphany for me.Dryden switching sides made it conspicuous that he experienced a political epiphany.
Origin: Middle English: from Greek epiphainein ‘reveal’. The sense relating to the Christian festival is via Old French epiphanie and ecclesiastical Latin epiphania.
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