| consensus |
general agreement in opinions, values, preferences, or the like. |
| dispose |
to place or arrange. |
| emblem |
an object that stands for something; symbol. |
| enforce |
to put in force; make people obey. |
| former |
happening in or having to do with the past; previous. |
| gripe |
(informal) to complain continually; nag; grumble. |
| pious |
showing love for a god or gods in thought and action; religious. |
| pivot |
a rod or pin upon which another part rotates, swings, or moves back and forth. |
| portent |
a sign of something important, and often disastrous, that is about to occur; omen. |
| profitable |
of a business, bringing in more money than is spent; financially successful. |
| refuge |
a place that protects from danger or difficulty. |
| respectively |
in the order that two or more people or things have been named. |
| shrine |
a sacred place or object that is devoted to some holy person or god. |
| statistic |
a piece of numerical information. |
| ultimate |
last or farthest in a progression; final. |