| caucus |
a private meeting of leaders of a political party to choose candidates or determine policy, or such a group itself. |
| cessation |
a pausing or stopping; discontinuance. |
| circuitous |
having or taking a long and winding course or procedure; roundabout; indirect. |
| collusion |
action undertaken in secret partnership or collaboration, usually for illicit purposes. |
| consolidate |
to join together into a whole; combine. |
| curvature |
the condition of being bent or rounded. |
| exchangeable |
capable of being interchanged with or given in return for another. |
| forbearance |
the act or capability of refraining or holding back. |
| pompous |
showing an exaggerated sense of own's own importance. |
| posit |
to propose or suggest as an account of something or as a contribution to an understanding of something. |
| presumptuous |
excessively bold or forward. |
| scanty |
barely adequate; meager. |
| secretive |
tending to secrecy. |
| sect |
any group, especially a religious group such as a denomination, that is united by a common belief, ritual, or the like. |
| theorem |
a proposition or idea that can be proven by other formulas or propositions in mathematics, or deduced from accepted premises or assumptions in logic. |