| A | B |
|---|
| republic | a government having a chief of state, not a king or queen |
| soothsayer | a person who claims to foretell the future |
| spoils | stolen goods |
| thwart | to stand in the way of |
| reluctant | unwilling |
| purge | to make clean |
| archrivals | the main people competing for the same object or goal as each other |
| array | regular order or arrangement |
| brewing | forming |
| conspirators | people who agree to act together to do an unlawful act |
| coronation | the act or ceremony of crowning a king or queen |
| dictatorship | a government in which total power is held by one person, a dictator |
| dross | waste or foreign matter |
| Ides of March | the fifteenth of March |
| inheritors | people who receive property or power as heirs |
