All 5 Uses of
conflict
in
Divergent, by Veronica Roth
- If conflict in Dauntless ends with only one person standing, I am unsure of what this part of initiation will do to me.
p. 97.8conflict = struggle or disagreement
- While you were off having fun, I was doing the dirty work of defending your old faction, eliminating interfaction conflict ….
p. 226.0 *conflict = struggle or disagreementeditor's notes: Interfaction refers to relations between different factions.
- He gives me a conflicted look and touches his lips to my forehead, right between my eyebrows.
p. 315.7conflicted = tension from opposing ideas or feelings
- Far removed from the conflict and the reality of what they have done.
p. 457.1conflict = struggle or disagreement
- I stare into his dark, conflicted eyes for an instant before he punches me in the jaw.
p. 474.4conflicted = tension from opposing ideas or feelings
Definition:
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"