| accountability |
the state or quality of being responsible for providing an explanation or justification. |
| alacrity |
willing promptness. |
| altruistic |
unselfishly devoted to the welfare of others. |
| compile |
to gather information together to form one written work. |
| degeneration |
the process of decline or decay. |
| deleterious |
harmful or injurious, as to health. |
| humility |
the quality or state of being humble; modesty about one's status or accomplishments. |
| parsimony |
excessive unwillingness to spend money or use resources; stinginess. |
| piteous |
worthy of or inspiring great sympathy. |
| prescriptive |
that prescribes; setting down rules. |
| reciprocity |
a mutual interchange of privileges or favors between two nations, groups, or institutions. |
| stasis |
the state of equilibrium or balance between opposing forces; motionlessness. |
| tenacity |
the quality or condition of holding on strongly or persistently to something. |
| tepid |
not quite warm; lukewarm. |
| transcendent |
going beyond the ordinary; surpassing; extraordinary. |