| alacrity |
willing promptness. |
| bequeath |
to leave or dispose of (property) by a will. |
| biennial |
happening every second year. |
| contemptuous |
feeling or expressing angry disgust, as at something unworthy or wicked; scornful. |
| discretion |
the freedom or authority to use one's own judgment. |
| immutable |
not subject to change; unchanging or unchangeable. |
| insurrection |
an act or instance of open rebellion against a government or other authority; uprising. |
| maternal |
of, having to do with, or like a mother. |
| prescience |
knowledge of future occurrences; foreknowledge. |
| quintessence |
that which most perfectly describes or typifies something; essence. |
| rabid |
extreme in opinion or action; fanatical. |
| sensory |
of or pertaining to hearing, seeing, smelling, tasting, or touching. |
| squabble |
to quarrel over trivial matters; bicker. |
| surrogate |
acting as, or considered to be, a substitute or replacement. |
| treatise |
a detailed and formal written work, usually dealing systematically with a single theme or subject. |