12. After the czar was overthrown, civil war erupted. With government control gone,
ill-disciplined armies led by revolutionaries, generals, admirals and Cossack warlords
roamed the land, looting to feed and equip themselves and to enrich their leaders. By the
summer of 1918, the opponents had _____ into two main factions, the Bolshevik “Reds”
and monarchist “Whites.”
(A) aggrandized (B) flouted (C) derogated (D) coalesced