cabal
noun /kəˈbæl/
/kəˈbæl/, /kəˈbɑːl/
(formal, usually disapproving)- a small group of people who are involved in secret plans to get political power
政治阴谋小集团 词源late 16th cent. (denoting the Kabbalah): from French cabale, from medieval Latin cabala, cabbala, from Rabbinical Hebrew qabbālāh ‘tradition’, from qibbēl ‘receive, accept’.