SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: CAMARILLA

SUPREME WORD OF THE DAY: CAMARILLA

PRONUNCIATION:  

(kam-uh-RIL-uh, Spanish: kah-mah-REE-yah)

MEANING:

(noun): A group of confidential scheming advisers.

ETYMOLOGY: From Spanish, diminutive of cámara (chamber), from Latin camera (room), from Greek kamara (an object with an arched cover). Earliest documented use: 1839.

USAGE: "In China ... successions to a bureaucratic collective leadership are managed by a tiny camarilla in a self-declared one-party state." Simon Sebag 

Montefiore; In Russia, Power Has No Heirs; The New York Times; Jan 11, 2009.

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