Why this word is great
MUTINEER — [Noun] One who rises in revolt against constituted authority, especially within the sealed, hierarchical world of a ship or military unit. From French mutinier, from mutin (“rebellious”), from mutine (“revolt”), ultimately from Latin movēre (“to move, stir”). Unlike an insurgent, who rebels against a broad political order, or a dissenter, who merely voices opposition, the mutineer commits an intimate treason from within a closed system. It is the withheld salute, the furtive note passed in the dank berth, the cold glint of a commandeered blade in the lantern-light—a desperate, localized motion against the immovable weight of the sea and the Articles of War, a betrayal of the only world you have because you can no longer bear to live in it.