V. WORDS RELATING TO THE VOLUNTARY POWERS; INDIVIDUAL VOLITION

I. VOLITION IN GENERAL

1. Acts of volition

Impulse.

[Nouns] impulse, sudden thought; impromptu, improvisation; inspiration, flash, spurt. improvisatore; creature of impulse.

[Verbs] flash on the mind.

say what comes uppermost; improvise, extemporize.

[Adjectives] extemporaneous, impulsive, indeliberate; snap; improvised, improvisate, improvisatory; unpremeditated, unmeditated; improvise; unprompted, unguided; natural, unguarded; spontaneous (voluntary) [more]; instinctive [more].

[Adverbs] extempore, extemporaneously; offhand, impromptu, a limproviste; improviso; on the spur of the moment, on the spur of the occasion.