Most credible English Language Dictionaries provide at least 10 synonyms for the word protest – object, disagree, oppose, complain, disapprove, declare, insist, affirm, avow, declare, grouse, holler, belly-ache. One Thesaurus, in fact, offers 106 synonyms and antonyms of the word “protest”. Yet writers don’t often consider any of them good substitute for “protest”, because over the decades, the word has assumed a much deeper, complex and lethal meaning. Palpably so, perhaps. The past decade or thereabouts, protests have become a dominant instrument of people and issue management across the local…
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