| alacrity |
willing promptness. |
| benevolent |
desiring to do good for others; generous. |
| bombast |
boastful, pompous, or otherwise overblown utterances. |
| clinch |
to make certain or final; settle. |
| consonance |
agreement, correspondence, or harmony. |
| drivel |
foolish or silly speech or ideas. |
| erudition |
a high level of scholarly knowledge; learnedness. |
| indispose |
to cause unwillingness or disinclination in; make averse. |
| nepotism |
favoritism shown to a near relative, as in preferential hiring or patronage. |
| nuance |
a subtle quality or difference in tone, meaning, color, or the like; shade. |
| persevere |
to continue steadfastly in a task or course of action or hold steadfastly to a belief or commitment, especially when met with opposition or difficulties; persist. |
| primacy |
the state of being first, earliest, most essential, or most important. |
| scandalous |
causing, or likely to cause, a scandal; shocking; disgraceful. |
| tempestuous |
characterized by disturbance or commotion; stormy; turbulent. |
| tincture |
an alcohol solution containing a medicinal substance. |