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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liveliness |
| Synonyms: | animation, brilliance, brio, dash, energy, enthusiasm, fire, gusto, life, sparkle, sprightliness, verve, vigor, zeal |
| Antonyms: | listlessness |
| Main Entry: | action |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something done |
| Synonyms: | activity, agility, alacrity, alertness, animation, bag*, ballgame, big idea, bit*, business, bustle, commotion, dash, deal, energy, enterprise, flurry, force, functioning, game, going, happening, haste, hoopla*, hopper, in the works, industry, life, liveliness, motion, movement, occupation, operation, plan, power, process, proposition, racket, reaction, response, rush, scene, spirit, stir, stunt, trip, turmoil, vigor, vim, vitality, vivacity |
| Antonyms: | cessation, idleness, inaction, inactivity, inertia, repose, rest, stoppage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | animation |
| 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: | 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: | celerity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swiftness |
| Synonyms: | alacrity, briskness, dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness, fleetness, gait, haste, hurry, hustle, legerity, promptness, quickness, rapidity, speed, speediness, swiftness, velocity, vivacity |
| Antonyms: | slowness, sluggishness |
| 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 |
| Main Entry: | ebullience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | agitation, animation, buoyancy, effervescence, effusiveness, elation, excitement, exhilaration, exuberance, exuberancy, ferment, gaiety, high spirits, high-spiritedness, liveliness, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, zest |
| Antonyms: | apathy, disinterest |
| Main Entry: | éclat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | style |
| Synonyms: | brio, dash, dynamism, flair, flourish, gusto, oomph, panache, pizzazz*, stylishness, verve, vigor, vitality, vivaciousness, vivacity, zest, zing, élan |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | eloquence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | skillful way with words |
| Synonyms: | ability, appeal, articulation, command of language, delivery, diction, dramatic, expression, expressiveness, expressivity, facility, fervor, flow, fluency, force, forcefulness, gift of gab, grandiloquence, loquacity, meaningfulness, mellifluousness, oration, oratory, passion, persuasiveness, poise, power, rhetoric, spirit, style, vigor, vivacity, volubility, wit, wittiness |
| Antonyms: | dullness, inarticulateness |
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