Word of the Day – Cabal

• Noun: Cabal
  1. the artifices and intrigues of a group of persons secretly united in a plot (as to overturn a government); also :  a group engaged in such artifices and intrigues
  2. club, group

• Synonyms:
  1. clique
  2. faction
  3. coterie
  4. cell
  5. sect
  6. junta
  7. camarilla

• Usage:

“Does my lord seriously wish me to name any one who was mixed up in the cabals of that day?”

• Encountered:

While reading Twenty Years After by Alexandre Dumas

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