| caucus |
a private meeting of leaders of a political party to choose candidates or determine policy, or such a group itself. |
| electorate |
a body of those entitled to participate in an election; qualified voters, as a group. |
| folio |
a large sheet of paper that has been folded once to form two leaves or four pages of a book or manuscript. |
| gauche |
deficient in manners or other conventions of social behavior; boorish; crude. |
| juncture |
a particular point in time, especially a point of serious importance or crisis. |
| lethargy |
a state of having very low energy with drowsiness and apathy; lassitude. |
| mediation |
the act or process of mediating between two disputing or disagreeing parties to bring about a resolution; arbitration. |
| monotone |
speech with little or no change in tone. |
| orifice |
an opening, such as a vent, mouth, or hole, through which something can pass. |
| piety |
worshipful devotion to and veneration of God or family. |
| recalcitrant |
stubbornly disobedient; refractory. |
| rhapsody |
a musical composition having an irregular form suggesting improvisation. |
| skirmish |
a minor or preliminary battle between small military units. |
| solemnize |
to carry out the formalities of performance required by (an occasion). |
| 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. |