vivacious

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The child at her side--vivacious, untiring, responsive Phœbe--would she, too, wear the plain dress some day and live the quiet life of her people The eagerness of the child's face as Miss Lee looked at her denoted intense interest in the sermon, but none could know the real cause of that eagerness I won't, I just won't dress plain!"

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  1. adjective Full of animation and spirit; lively: a charming and vivacious host.

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  • And we like to go out where people are bright and vivacious, and know something. —  A Little Girl of Long Ago
  • The child at her side--vivacious, untiring, responsive Phœbe--would she, too, wear the plain dress some day and live the quiet life of her people The eagerness of the child's face as Miss Lee looked at her denoted intense interest in the sermon, but none could know the real cause of that eagerness I won't, I just won't dress plain!" —  Patchwork A Story of 'The Plain People'
  • A gal as attractive, vivacious, and clever as you are, would have to marry--in self-defense, if for no other reason. —  David Lannarck, Midget An Adventure Story
  • Among his friends his manner was vivacious, his talk racy, his criticism free. —  Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies
  • If you find them nice, vivacious, amusing, amenable, be sure that they are forgeries This is the profound fallacy underlying the present-day economic peace propagandism, whose heaviest underwriter, Mr. Carnegie, is, by the way, an agnostic. —  Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View
 

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lively ·  affable ·  talkative ·  genial ·  witty ·  sprightly ·  jovial ·  buoyant ·  energetic ·  comely ·  light-hearted ·  animate
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  1. From Latin vīvāx, vīvāc-, from vīvere, to live; see gwei- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. = French vivace =Spanish Portuguese vivaz = Italian vivace, from Latin vivax (vivac-), lively, quick, eager, also tenacious of life, longlived, from vivere, live: see vivid.
 

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