difficult to control; unruly; irritable and quarrelsome
just begun and so not fully formed or developed; rudimentary
among other things
(noun) an intervening space
an unfilled space; a gap (plural: lacunae)
intervened with, through an intermediary
(verb) to anticipate and prevent (as a situation) or make unnecessary (as an action)
make (something abstract) more concrete or real
the philosophical attempt to describe things in terms of their apparent intrinsic purpose, directive principle, or goal, irrespective of human use or opinion