confederate vs federal

confederate

noun
  • A member of a confederacy. 

  • An accomplice in a plot. 

  • An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher. 

verb
  • To combine in a confederacy. 

adj
  • of, relating to, or united in a confederacy 

  • banded together; allied. 

federal

noun
  • A unionist soldier in the American Civil War. 

  • A law-enforcement official of the FBI 

  • A supporter of federation. 

adj
  • Pertaining to a league or treaty; derived from an agreement or covenant between parties, especially between nations. 

  • Pertaining to the national government level in a federal nation, as opposed to state, provincial, county, city, or town. 

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