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vivacious
Lively in an attractive way.
🌱For the cheerleading squad, only the most outgoing, energetic, and vivacious of the students get chosen. 🌳Vivacious can be used to describe a piece of music or writing, but it's generally used today to describe people, and particularly women. The main female characters in Shakespeare's plays—Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Rosalind in As You Like It, and Portia in The Merchant of Venice, for example—are often full of humor, spirit, and vivacity. bon vivant A sociable person with a love of excellent food and drink.
🌱My uncle and aunt were bons vivants, and could usually be found in the evening at a swank midtown bar surrounded by a crowd of tipsy merrymakers. 🌳Bon vivant comes straight from French, where it means literally "good liver," and is still pronounced in the French way, though we've actually been using it in English since the 17th century. A proper bon vivant has some money and lots of friends and plenty of style and knows a good wine and can tell a great story and loves to laugh. Because of all these requirements, true bons vivants are rather rare—but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of people who hope to be one someday. revivify To give new life to; bring back to life.
🌱All their efforts to revivify the boys' club seemed to be getting them nowhere, till one of the board members had a great idea. 🌳Worn-out soil may be revivified by careful organic tending. A terrific new recruit can revivify a discouraged football team, and an imaginative and energetic new principal can revivify a failing high school. After World War II, one European country after another was slowly revivified, their economies and cultural life gradually coming back to life. Notice that revivify looks like some other words with very similar meanings, such as revive, revitalize, and reinvigorate. vivisection Operation on living animals, often for experimental purposes.
🌱The lab attempts to avoid vivisection in its research, concentrating instead on alternative methods that have been developed. 🌳Vivisection includes the Latin root sect, meaning "cut." The Greek physician Galen, who lived during the 2nd century A.D., practiced vivisection on live monkeys and dogs to learn such things as the role of the spinal cord in muscle activity and whether veins and arteries carry air or blood; his findings formed the basis of medical practice for more than a thousand years. Vivisection continues to be used in drug and medical research today, but often in secret, since it makes most people very uncomfortable and some groups are violently opposed to it.
🌱For the cheerleading squad, only the most outgoing, energetic, and vivacious of the students get chosen. 🌳Vivacious can be used to describe a piece of music or writing, but it's generally used today to describe people, and particularly women. The main female characters in Shakespeare's plays—Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, Rosalind in As You Like It, and Portia in The Merchant of Venice, for example—are often full of humor, spirit, and vivacity. bon vivant A sociable person with a love of excellent food and drink.
🌱My uncle and aunt were bons vivants, and could usually be found in the evening at a swank midtown bar surrounded by a crowd of tipsy merrymakers. 🌳Bon vivant comes straight from French, where it means literally "good liver," and is still pronounced in the French way, though we've actually been using it in English since the 17th century. A proper bon vivant has some money and lots of friends and plenty of style and knows a good wine and can tell a great story and loves to laugh. Because of all these requirements, true bons vivants are rather rare—but that doesn't mean there aren't plenty of people who hope to be one someday. revivify To give new life to; bring back to life.
🌱All their efforts to revivify the boys' club seemed to be getting them nowhere, till one of the board members had a great idea. 🌳Worn-out soil may be revivified by careful organic tending. A terrific new recruit can revivify a discouraged football team, and an imaginative and energetic new principal can revivify a failing high school. After World War II, one European country after another was slowly revivified, their economies and cultural life gradually coming back to life. Notice that revivify looks like some other words with very similar meanings, such as revive, revitalize, and reinvigorate. vivisection Operation on living animals, often for experimental purposes.
🌱The lab attempts to avoid vivisection in its research, concentrating instead on alternative methods that have been developed. 🌳Vivisection includes the Latin root sect, meaning "cut." The Greek physician Galen, who lived during the 2nd century A.D., practiced vivisection on live monkeys and dogs to learn such things as the role of the spinal cord in muscle activity and whether veins and arteries carry air or blood; his findings formed the basis of medical practice for more than a thousand years. Vivisection continues to be used in drug and medical research today, but often in secret, since it makes most people very uncomfortable and some groups are violently opposed to it.
VIV comes from vivere, the Latin verb meaning "to live or be alive." A survivor has lived through something terrible. A revival brings something back to life, whether it's an old film, interest in a long-dead novelist, or religious enthusiasm in a group, maybe in a huge tent in the countryside.🌸