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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inspiration |
| Synonyms: | ad-libbing, improvisation, impulse, inclination, tendency, whim, will |
| Main Entry: | energy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person's spirit and vigor |
| Synonyms: | activity, animation, application, ardor, birr, dash, drive, effectiveness, efficacy, efficiency, endurance, enterprise, exertion, fire, force, forcefulness, fortitude, get-up-and-go, go, hardihood, initiative, intensity, juice, life, liveliness, might, moxie*, muscle, operativeness, pep, pizzazz, pluck, potency, power, puissance, punch, spirit, spontaneity, stamina, steam, strength, toughness, tuck, vehemence, verve, vim, virility, vitality, vivacity, zeal, zest, zing, zip, élan |
| Antonyms: | idleness, inactivity, laziness, lethargy, tiredness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | facility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ease; ability |
| Synonyms: | address, adroitness, aptitude, bent, child's play, competence, dexterity, efficiency, effortlessness, expertness, fluency, knack, leaning, lightness, poise, proficiency, propensity, quickness, readiness, skill, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, spontaneity, tact, turn, wit |
| Notes: | a facility is a building or place that provides a particular service or is used for a particular industry or a skillful performance or ability without difficulty; faculty is one of the inherent cognitive or perceptual powers of the mind or the body of teachers and administrators at a school |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, hardness |
| Main Entry: | freedom |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | easy attitude |
| Synonyms: | abandon, boldness, brazenness, candor, directness, disrespect, ease, facility, familiarity, forthrightness, forwardness, frankness, impertinence, informality, ingenuousness, lack of reserve, lack of restraint, laxity, license, openness, overfamiliarity, presumption, readiness, spontaneity, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | difficulty, limitation, reserve, restraint, restriction |
| Main Entry: | improvisation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | extemporary speech |
| Synonyms: | ad-libbing, autoschediasm, extemporization, speaking off the cuff, spontaneity, winging it |
| Main Entry: | impulse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | drive, resolve |
| Synonyms: | actuation, appeal, bent, caprice, catalyst, desire, disposition, excitant, extemporization, fancy, feeling, flash*, goad, hunch, impellent, impulsion, incitation, incitement, inclination, influence, inspiration, instinct, itch, lash, lust, mind, motivation, motive, notion, passion, spontaneity, spur, thought, urge, vagary, whim, whimsy, wish, yen |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | extemporization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | improvisation |
| Synonyms: | ad-lib, ad-libbing, extemporizing, impromptu, spontaneity, winging it |
| Main Entry: | heedlessness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandon |
| Synonyms: | carelessness, disregard, freedom, impulse, licentiousness, recklessness, spontaneity, thoughtlessness, uninhibitedness, unrestraint, wantonness, wildness |
| Main Entry: | informality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ease |
| Synonyms: | affability, aplomb, breeze, casualness, child's play, cinch, cleverness, composure, dexterity, dispatch, duck soup, easiness, easygoingness, efficiency, effortlessness, expertise, expertness, familiarity, flexibility, fluency, insouciance, knack, liberty, naturalness, nonchalance, poise, pushover, quickness, readiness, relaxedness, setup, simplicity, skillfulness, smooth sailing, smoothness, snap, spontaneity, unaffectedness, unceremoniousness, unconstraint, unreservedness, unrestraint |
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