(v) come or be in close contact with; stick or hold together and resist separation; "The dress clings to her body"; "The label stuck to the box"; "The sushi rice grains cohere"

(v) have internal elements or parts logically connected so that aesthetic consistency results; "the principles by which societies cohere"

(v) cause to form a united, orderly, and aethestically consistent whole; "Religion can cohere social groups"

(n) an assembly (including one or more judges) to conduct judicial business

(s) practicing great self-denial; "Be systematically ascetic...do...something for no other reason than that you would rather not do it"- William James; "a desert nomad's austere life"; "a spartan diet"; "a spartan existence"

(s) of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"

(s) severely simple; "a stark interior"

(s) returning to health after illness or debility; "convalescent children are difficult to keep in bed"

(n) an abstract place usually conceived as having depth; "a good actor communicates on several levels"; "a simile has at least two layers of meaning"; "the mind functions on many strata simultaneously"

(n) one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism)

(s) characterized by extreme care and great effort; "conscientious application to the work at hand"; "painstaking research"; "scrupulous attention to details"

(a) guided by or in accordance with conscience or sense of right and wrong; "a conscientious decision to speak out about injustice"

(a) based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice; "an arbitrary decision"; "the arbitrary rule of a dictator"; "an arbitrary penalty"; "of arbitrary size and shape"; "an arbitrary choice"; "arbitrary division of t