| caucus |
a private meeting of leaders of a political party to choose candidates or determine policy, or such a group itself. |
| cistern |
a tank or other receptacle for catching and storing water, especially rainwater. |
| entrench |
to establish firmly and unchangeably. |
| heretic |
a person who maintains unorthodox religious opinions or beliefs, especially a baptized Roman Catholic who dissents from official church doctrine. |
| iconoclastic |
attacking or breaking away from established traditions, beliefs, or values. |
| imbibe |
to take up or consume by drinking. |
| insensible |
without normal sensations; unconscious. |
| lamentable |
deserving to be mourned or regretted; deplorable; unfortunate; disappointing. |
| malady |
an illness of the body or mind. |
| mutable |
able or likely to change. |
| prevaricate |
to lie, mislead, or conceal the truth deliberately. |
| privation |
lack of necessities or common comforts of life. |
| protract |
to extend in time; prolong. |
| revivalist |
suited to or aimed at the purpose of bringing back former beliefs, ideas, or practices. |
| universality |
the quality, character, or condition of being universal. |