N. opponent, antagonist, adversary, adverse party, # opposition, enemy, the other side, assailant, oppositionist, obstructive, brawler, wrangler, brangler, disputant, filibuster, obstructionist, malcontent, jacobin, fenian, demagogue, reactionist, rival, competitor, bete noir

N. disobedience, insubordination, contumacy, infraction, infringement, violation, noncompliance, nonobservance, revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, emeute, riot, tumult, strike, barring out, defiance, mutinousness, mutineering, sedition, treason, high treason, petty treason, misprision of treason, premunire, lese majeste, violation of law, defection, secession, insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, revolutionary, rioter, traitor, quisling, carbonaro, sansculottes, red republican, bonnet rouge, communist, fenian, frondeur, seceder, secessionist, runagate, renegade, brawler, anarchist, demagogue, spartacus, masaniello, wat tyler, jack cade, ringleader

V. disobey, violate, infringe, shirk, set at defiance, set authority at naught, run riot, fly in the face of, take the law into one's own hands, kick over the traces, turn restive, run restive, champ the bit, strike, rise, rise in arms, secede, mutiny, rebel

Adj. disobedient, uncomplying, uncompliant, unsubmissive, unruly, ungovernable, breachy, insubordinate, impatient of control, incorrigible, restiff|, restive, refractory, contumacious, recusant, recalcitrant, resisting, lawless, mutinous, seditions, insurgent, riotous, unobeyed, unbidden

Phr. seditiosissimus quisque ignavus, "unthread the rude eye of rebellion"

N. blusterer, swaggerer, vaporer, roisterer, brawler, fanfaron, braggart, bully, terrorist, rough, bulldozer, hoodlum, hooligan*, larrikin, roarer*, mohock, mohawk, drawcansir, swashbuckler, captain bobadil, sir lucius o'trigger, thraso, pistol, parolles, bombastes furioso, hector, chrononhotonthologos, jingo, desperado, dare-devil, fire eater, fury, &c. (violent person) 173, rowdy, slang-whanger*, tough, puppy, prig, sir oracle, dogmatist, doctrinaire, jack- in-office, saucebox, malapert, jackanapes, minx, bantam-cock, 1, social affections