| caucus |
a private meeting of leaders of a political party to choose candidates or determine policy, or such a group itself. |
| ensue |
to occur as the result of an earlier event. |
| forthcoming |
about to appear or happen. |
| indisposed |
slightly and temporarily ill, as with indigestion or a cold. |
| patron |
a regular customer of a shop, restaurant, or some other business. |
| precinct |
an area in a town or city that forms a separate district for voting or that is looked after by one police unit. |
| puerile |
immature or silly; childish. |
| purge |
to free or rid (usually followed by "of" or "from"). |
| regimen |
a regulated routine of therapy or exercise designed to promote health or fitness. |
| sacrilege |
the violation, profane treatment, or destruction of some place or thing that is considered to be holy. |
| stringent |
rigorous or exacting; strict. |
| synthesis |
the combining of discrete elements into a unified compound or entity, or the unified whole formed by such a combining. |
| throwback |
a reappearance of an outmoded procedure, system, or the like. |
| tome |
a large thick book, often one of a multivolume scholarly work. |
| waiver |
the intentional relinquishing of a right, claim, or privilege, or a suspension of an existing rule or policy. |