cabal
C2CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
NeutralRegister
General noun
A small secretive group plotting together.
A cabal of insiders decided things before any meeting.
Business noun
A secretive group scheming to seize power or influence.
A cabal of division heads quietly built the case to oust the chief executive before the next board meeting.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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