fervour (United States fervor)

noun
1 intense and passionate feeling.
2 archaic intense heat.

neo-realism
noun a naturalistic movement in Italian literature and cinema that emerged in the 1940s.

DERIVATIVES
neo-realist noun & adjective

volley
noun (plural volleys)
1 a number of bullets, arrows, or other projectiles discharged at one time. a series of utterances
directed at someone in quick succession.
2 (in sport, especially tennis or soccer) a strike or kick of the ball made before it touches the ground.
verb (volleys, volleying, volleyed)
1 strike or kick (the ball) before it touches the ground.
2 utter or discharge in quick succession.

DERIVATIVES
volleyer noun

ORIGIN
C16: from French vole, based on Latin volare 'to fly'.

umpteen
cardinal number informal indefinitely many.

DERIVATIVES
umpteenth ordinal number.

ORIGIN
early 20th cent.: humorous formation based on -teen.

whimsy (also whimsey)

noun (plural whimsies or whimseys)
1 playfully quaint or fanciful behaviour or humour. a thing that is fanciful or odd.
2 a whim.

ORIGIN
C17 (in the sense 'caprice'): probably based on whim-wham.