You searched for:
“cabal”
cabal, cable
cabal (kuh BAL) (noun)
A secret group, or a plot, that is devoted to intrigue and to the overthrow of a political system: The cabal consisted of men and women who were committed to achieving a new government, by force if necessary.
cable (KAY buhl) (noun)
A rope, wire, or chain of considerable circumference and strength which may be used to hold or to fasten objects together or, as in telecommunications, to carry electric or message impulses: The workmen installed the new cable for the telephone system.
When the workers were installing the new cable system in the basement, they came across a secret room where it appeared that a cabal of social advocates met.
This entry is located in the following unit:
Confusing Words Clarified: Group C; Homonyms, Homophones, Homographs, Synonyms, Polysemes, etc.
(page 1)
Word Entries at Get Words:
“cabal”
1. A secret organization or gathering of individuals typically dedicated to changing a government, often by violence: The government was toppled by a cabal of dissident and conspiratorial generals.
2. Intrigues, conspiracies, or plots engaged in by groups or individuals with the goal of getting a new government: The Russian emigres were constantly engaged in anti-soviet cabals.
3. Etymology: from the word cabbala or kabbala, referring to a Jewish tradition of interpreting texts.
© ALL rights are reserved.
Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
2. Intrigues, conspiracies, or plots engaged in by groups or individuals with the goal of getting a new government: The Russian emigres were constantly engaged in anti-soviet cabals.
3. Etymology: from the word cabbala or kabbala, referring to a Jewish tradition of interpreting texts.
Cabbala is often regarded as "a secret and mystical practice"; therefore, the word took on the additional meaning of "secret behavior".
Go to this Word A Day Revisited Index
so you can see more of Mickey Bach's cartoons.
This entry is located in the following unit:
English Words in Action, Group C
(page 1)