Both Uses of "conflict" in "Ceremony, by Silko"

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Both Uses

conflict
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Ceremony, by Silko
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They focused the anger on the girl and her family, knowing from many years of this conflict that the anger could not be contained by a single person or family, but that it must leak out and soak into the ground under the entire village.†
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conflict = struggle or disagreement
After she moved in, people said the steps on the spiral staircase at the end of the porch were never dusty any more; but that was only rumor, and there were conflicting stories about where she got her money.†
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conflicting = opposing (struggling against each other)

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(1) (conflict)
a struggle or disagreement
in various senses, including:
- a serious disagreement -- as in "political conflict"
- the tension from two opposing ideas or feelings -- as in "I'm conflicted about where I should go to college."
- a violent fight or war -- as in "the Israeli-Palestinian conflict"
- an idiom that refers to tension between responsibilities to different entities -- "conflict of interest"
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)