recalcitrant
adj. & n.
- obstinately disobedient
- objecting to restraint
- n. a recalcitrant person
recalcitrance n. recalcitrantly adv.
[Latin recalcitrare ( as RE-, calcitrare 'kick out with the heels' from calx calcis 'heel')]
fungible
adj.
Law (of goods etc. contracted for, when an individual specimen is not meant)
that can serve for, or be replaced by, another answering to the same definition.
fungibility n.
[medieval Latin fungibilis, from fungi (vice) 'serve (in place of)']
promissory
adj.
- conveying or implying a promise
- (often foll. by of) full of promise.
[Medieval Latin promissorius from Latin promissor (as PROMISE)]
ramify
v.
(-ies, -ied)
- intr. form branches or subdivisions or offshoots, branch out.
- tr. (usu. in passive) cause to branch out; arrange in a branching manner.
[French ramifier via medieval Latin ramificare from Latin ramus 'branch']
