sweeping: used to describe amounts or actions that are very large or significant: here, fear is growing quickly apprehension: a feeling of fear that something terrible may happen hard facts: a statement or piece of information that is true, hard meaning backed up by evidence sectarian: means resulting from the differences between sects or groups, here, violence resulting from those differences anarchy: a situation where nobody obeys rules or laws ethnic: connected with different racial or cultural groups of people | 
