October 9th BONUS Vocab Word

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Here is today's bonus word, with a link to a sound clip and definition as well as the definition given by my GRE study manual...and several vocabulary sentences made up by yours truly.

alacrity (noun): eager and enthusiastic willingness

• I began the effort with alacrity, but my enthusiasm waned as I realized how few people were willing to help.
• The level of alacrity she demonstrated was encouraging, as we needed a foreman who did not hesitate.
• He had so much alacrity from the start that his movement into management was inevitable.
• There is no task I approach with more alacrity than one involving food preparation for parties.
• As a new attorney, she objected with alacrity, reveling in the use of her hard-earned legal skills to block an unfortunate line of reasoning.
• He was surprisingly helpful and started out with so much alacrity that I had to slow him down in order to keep up myself.
• I would have come to my project with more alacrity if I had not been so exhausted from the last one.
• He felt upstaged by the young interns, who came in with alacrity and ideas on which he had long ago given up but that were now received by the higher-ups with interest.