verve
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6.8
- noun
- /vɜrv/
:
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- Her dance performance was filled with verve, showcasing her passion and energy.
What's sexy is passion and agency and you know, verve mojo, whatever.
- What's sexy is passion and agency and you know, verve mojo, whatever.
Examples
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The musician played the song with such verve that the audience was captivated.
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The representation standard corresponds with African American learners' preference for concrete imagery, creativity, verve, and divergent thinking.
Academic text (2003) -
You will deliver my final orders to the council... ...with force and verve.
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You got spirit, spunk, fire, verve.
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Unfortunately, however, he kept on winning, and for one extraordinary June and July, the Durham Bulls began playing baseball with joy and verve and poetry.
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Our political life could also use some of the imagination, verve, and straight talk the WPA displayed.
Blog text (12) -
His singing was full of verve and intelligence; his sense of theatricality was almost always unerring.
Blog text (22) -
Quietly but full of verve, she sings the best of the songbooks, the ballads.
Fiction book (1997) -
Bowden plunges with verve into his grim subject matter.
Academic text (2010) -
Johnny watched intently, taking in her charisma and magnetism, her style and verve.
Fiction book (1997)
Synonyms
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1.6
Lively excitement that makes people or work feel active
29
4.3
Energy and liveliness that make a person or thing seem active
3
5.5
A strong lively style in writing or art that makes it exciting
2
8.8
A lively energy in the way someone speaks, plays, or moves
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6.8
Being lively and full of cheerful energy that makes people notice you
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4.9
A bright, lively look or feeling that shows energy
A strong, happy energy that makes someone lively
Antonyms
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word verve comes from French for lively speech and from the Latin verbum meaning 'word', the same root as the English verb. So verve began as lively or clever words and now means lively energy or style in art or speech.