alacrity 
alac·rity (ə lak′rə tē)
noun
eager willingness or readiness, often manifested by quick, lively action
Etymology: ME & OFr alacrite < Lalacritas, liveliness < alacer, lively
Preposition: of
- spirit: We have no longer the alacrity of spirit that feels but half the weight it carries.
Converse of object
- disconcert: He stated that he wished his deputies to respond to the threat of lethal violence with " disconcerting alacrity.
- show: Spain too, which then was without a governor of consular rank, showed no alacrity.
Adjective modifier
- great: Having stripped off with great alacrity, Daniel got on the bed.
- such: A still bigger surprise is that a relatively small 2.7 liter diesel engine can push such a large car along with such alacrity.
- same: Will the same alacrity apply to the Entertainment Center?
- joyful: Sir William and Lady Lucas were speedily applied to for their consent; and it was bestowed with a most joyful alacrity.
- fresh: Yea, with a bridegroom's fresh alacrity Let us address to tend on Hector's heels.
- remarkable: And then a number of brisk young men began with remarkable alacrity to tidy up the goods that remained disturbed.
As every teacher, like every drill-sergeant or animal trainer, knows in his practice, teaching and training have virtually not yet begun, so long as the pupil istoo young, too stupid, too scared or too sulky to respondöand to respond is not just to yield.Where there is a modicum of alacrity, interest or anyhow docility in the pupil, where he tries, however faintheartedly, to get things right rather than awkward, where, even, he registers even a slight contempt for the poor performances of others, of chagrin at his own, pleasure at his own successes and envy of those of others, then he is, in however slight a degree, co-operating and so self-moving.
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