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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liveliness; activity |
| Synonyms: | action, ardor, bounce, brio, briskness, buoyancy, dash, dynamism, ebullience, elation, energy, enthusiasm, esprit, excitement, exhilaration, fervor, gaiety, high spirits, life, oomph, passion, pep, sparkle, spirit, sprightliness, verve, vibrancy, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity, zap, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
| Antonyms: | discouragement, dullness, inactivity |
| Main Entry: | activity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of being active |
| Synonyms: | action, activeness, animation, bustle, enterprise, exercise, exertion, hustle, labor, life, liveliness, motion, movement |
| Antonyms: | idleness, immobility, inactivity, indolence, inertia, laziness, sluggishness |
| Main Entry: | being |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | existence |
| Synonyms: | actuality, animation, journey, life, living, presence, reality, subsistence, vitality, world |
| Antonyms: | deadness |
| Main Entry: | bounce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | spring |
| Synonyms: | animation, bound, dynamism, elasticity, energy, give, go, life, liveliness, pep, rebound, recoil, resilience, springiness, vigor, vitality, vivacity, zip |
| Main Entry: | breath |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | respiration |
| Synonyms: | animation, breathing, eupnea, exhalation, expiration, gasp, gulp, inhalation, inspiration, insufflation, pant, wheeze |
| Main Entry: | buoyancy/buoyance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lightness in spirit |
| Synonyms: | animation, bounce, cheerfulness, cheeriness, ebullience, effervescence, exuberance, gaiety, good feeling, good humor, happiness, high spirits, jollity, liveliness, pep, spiritedness, sunniness, vim and vigor, zing, zip |
| Antonyms: | blues, depression, heaviness |
| Main Entry: | cartoon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | funny drawing, often with dialogue or caption |
| Synonyms: | animation, caricature, comic strip, drawing, lampoon, parody, representation, satire, sketch, takeoff |
| Main Entry: | cheer |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | happiness |
| Synonyms: | animation, buoyancy, cheerfulness, cheeriness, comfort, delight, encouragement, exuberance, gaiety, geniality, gladness, glee, good cheer, hilarity, hopefulness, jauntiness, jocundity, joy, joyousness, lightheartedness, liveliness, merriment, merry-making, mirth, optimism, solace |
| Antonyms: | depression, gloom, gravity, melancholy, sadness, seriousness, unhappiness |
| Main Entry: | dash |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | flair, style |
| Synonyms: | animation, birr, brio, energy, esprit, flourish, force, impressiveness, intensity, life, might, oomph, panache, power, spirit, strength, vehemence, verve, vigor, vim, vivacity, zing, zip, éclat, élan |
| Antonyms: | drab, dullness, frumpiness |
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