| annals |
a chronological record of events, usually year by year. |
| ascendant |
moving upward; rising. |
| banter |
joking, clever conversation. |
| caucus |
a private meeting of leaders of a political party to choose candidates or determine policy, or such a group itself. |
| endemic |
native to or restricted to a given place or population. |
| exculpate |
to free (a person or group) from guilt or blame, or from the suspicion of guilt or blame. |
| fabricate |
to construct or create. |
| forbearance |
the act or capability of refraining or holding back. |
| heresy |
a religious belief or doctrine not in keeping with the established doctrine of a church, especially the rejection of or dissent from any aspect of Roman Catholic Church dogma by a baptized church member. |
| intolerance |
inability or unwillingness to accept the existence or validity of opinions, beliefs, customs, and practices different from one's own. |
| prurient |
characterized by or causing lewdness or lust. |
| rabble1 |
a confused and uncontrolled crowd; disorderly mob. |
| rehabilitate |
to restore to good health or to an otherwise improved state of being. |
| solicitous |
anxiously or tenderly concerned or attentive (usually followed by about, of, or for.) |
| unconscionable |
not restrained or guided by a concern for what is right and just; unprincipled. |