Preposition: of

• tribe: The sort of picture we have in mind is probably a confederacy of tribes with a common language.

• dunce: Confederacy of dunces Henry McDonald: What is it that unites the IRA and Eta or the UDA and Gibraltar?

Preposition: as

• nation: Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy as an independent nation, and he insisted on the restoration of the Union without slavery.

Converse of object

• join: Johnson supported Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War and was the only Southern senator who refused to join the Confederacy.

• form: So powerful were these teachings that the tribes of the Algonquin peoples formed the Iroquois Confederacy.

• celebrate: You still see Hollywood making movies that celebrate the Confederacy, in various ways, as a sad, lost cause.

• recognize: Lincoln refused to recognize the Confederacy as an independent nation, and he insisted on the restoration of the Union without slavery.

• defeat: It propagated freedom of speech while f the defeated Confederacy, subjected to Yankee interlopers and groping for a new identity ( pp.

• lead: David led a confederacy of the twelve tribes and founded a hereditary monarchy with Jerusalem as its capital.

Adjective modifier

• Italian: As little did the territory of the Italian confederacy present any tenable basis.

• Iroquois: The tree and its roots represented the five tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy.

• eastern: The western Confederacy was now completely isolated from the eastern Confederacy and the Union Army had total control of the Mississippi River.

• western: The western Confederacy was now completely isolated from the eastern Confederacy and the Union Army had total control of the Mississippi River.

• former: For some this was a race against time to show that the potency of race in the former Confederacy had been extinguished.

• second: Crowther, 8 February ) We depend fundamentally for our knowledge of the Second Athenian Confederacy on the evidence of inscriptions.