The Return of Sherlock Holmes: confederate (US) a member of a confederacy. an accomplice in a plot. psychology An actor who participates in a psychological experiment pretending to be a subject but in actuality working for the researcher (also known as a 'stooge'). of, relating to, or united in a confederacy. banded together; allied. To combine into a confederacy. grim /ɡrɪm/ -ɪm (US) dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. rigid and unrelenting. ghastly or sinister. cliff /klɪf/ -ɪf (US) A vertical (or near vertical) rock face.
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