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as in energetic
having much high-spirited energy and movement
an outgoing, vivacious girl who became a successful sales rep
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as in joyful
joyously unrestrained
the poem is a vivacious expression of his love for her
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Recent Examples of vivacious
Born with the sun and Venus in this vivacious Fire sign, her music is inspiring and captivating, more than often challenging listeners and fellow musicians of the same genre.
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Valerie Mesa, People.com, 7 Mar. 2025
Bianca Del Rio: The vivacious drag queen reigned as the celebrity monarch of Orpheus.
—Carlie Kollath Wells, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
The makeup artist was tasked with creating a beauty look for a collection that radiates color, with vivacious shapes and prints.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 2 Mar. 2025
The delicate gold chains holding Johnson’s Gucci dress together recalled another sensual and daring red carpet look: the safety pin dress, which through the years, has been worn by Anne Hathaway, Miley Cyrus, Kristen Stewart, and of course the vivacious original, Elizabeth Hurley in Versace.
—Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 17 Feb. 2025
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Chamberlin oversaw the spiritual and energetic cleansing of each fragrance during a final ceremonial step.—
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According to the team, this behavior is comparable to birds that appear to deliberately use favorable thermal uplifts to reduce the energetic costs of flying.—
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Keep reading for the recipe, plus a few more joyful things to slot into your month.—
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The ideals and events of the decade informed the music, as its moods grew both more joyful and darker.—
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The same subject stirred up a lively debate in the Vogue Slack channel.—
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The 2025 season has brought a lively atmosphere, with a strong law enforcement presence to ensure safety.—
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No genre brings out the jubilant child among exuberant adults like pro wrestling, and Vegas’ Play Playground at the Luxor does just that.—
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By running the music at length, though, and with only the gentlest of winks, Gomes all but instructs us to surrender to the exuberant earnestness and grandeur of the moment.—
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Even though that last one was over a decade ago now, Frost has been in loads of projects since then, including doing a lot of voicework for animated endeavors.—
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Kevin Conroy, most famously the eternal voice of Batman in animated and video game projects for decades, sadly passed away in 2022 from cancer.—
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And to end on a buzz, try this Sake-Grapefruit Fizz, an effervescent citrusy cocktail that our test kitchen became obsessed with.—
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The two-track body of work boasts snakey slithering synths, explosive drops, effervescent sounds, hard-hitting tunes, hypnotic soundscapes and erratic beats that build up into a crescendo followed by techno designed to ignite the dance floor.—
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AccuWeather is predicting that 2025 Atlantic hurricane season will be less active than 2024 — one of the most destructive on record — but at or above historical averages from 1990 to 2020.—
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As of Wednesday, wildfires were still active in several areas of North and South Gyeongsang and Ulsan city.—
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The difference is subtle, but the fine filter creates milk that's a bit bubblier than the ultrafine filter.—
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But concerts also start feeling poppier and bubblier in springtime, perhaps in anticipation of the even warmer, wilder and grander music events of festival-frenzied summertime.—
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“Vivacious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vivacious. Accessed 7 Apr. 2025.
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