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