| axiom |
an obvious or generally accepted principle. |
| cistern |
a tank or other receptacle for catching and storing water, especially rainwater. |
| epitaph |
on a gravestone or tomb, an inscription commemorating the dead person. |
| excoriate |
to denounce or criticize severely. |
| grandiloquent |
speaking or expressed in a pretentious, pompous, or excessively ornate fashion. |
| grapple |
to grasp, twist, or wrestle in close combat. |
| grassroots |
originating with or operating among the common people. |
| hermetic |
preventing or sealed to prevent the influx or escape of air; airtight. |
| nonpartisan |
not influenced or determined by the policies or interests of a political party. |
| ornamentation |
decoration; embellishment. |
| preempt |
to seize or appropriate ahead of others. |
| prescience |
knowledge of future occurrences; foreknowledge. |
| ratify |
to approve in an official way; confirm. |
| stipulate |
to specify or arrange as a condition of an agreement. |
| tenet |
any belief, opinion, doctrine, or the like, that a person or especially an organization holds as being true. |