Federal
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations. Pertaining to the national government level, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A law-enforcement official of the FBI; short for federal agent.
Example sentence: We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Union
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of uniting or joining two or more things into one, or the state of being united or joined; junction; coalition; combination.That which is united, or made one; something formed by a combination or coalition of parts or members; a confederation; a consolidated body; a league.A joint or other connection uniting parts of machinery, such as pipes.The set containing all of the elements of two or more sets.The act or state of marriage.Sexual intercourse.A data structure that can store any of various items, but only one at a time.
Example sentence: A Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets has no charm for me. If the Union is dissolved and government disrupted, I shall return to my native state and share the miseries of my people, and save in defense will draw my sword on none.