Today's Word "faction"
A usually contentious group within a larger group
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faction /FAK-shuhn/ (noun) - 1 : A usually contentious or self-seeking group within a larger group, party, government, etc. 2 : Party strife and intrigue; internal dissension.
"For most of his colleagues, Leonid Ilich Brezhnev, who had succeeded Khrushchev as First (later General) Secretary, was a far more reassuring figure -- affable, lightweight and patient in reconciling opposing factions , though skillful in outmaneuvering his political rivals." -- Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, 'The Sword and the Shield'
Faction comes from Latin factio , faction- , from the past participle of facere , "to do, to make."
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