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alacrity
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  • Displaying impressive alacrity, a host was already standing there to greet them.  (source)
    alacrity = quickness; and/or cheerful eagerness
  • Her reply came with surprising alacrity.  (source)
  • ...he participated in the conversation with as much alacrity as he had formerly shut it out.  (source)
    alacrity = eagerness and energy
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  • (With alacrity, suddenly looking at George) Oh, yes!  (source)
    alacrity = eagerness
  • Needless to say, I accepted with alacrity.  (source)
    alacrity = quickness; and/or cheerful eagerness
  • ...and came with unusual alacrity towards the door;  (source)
  • Victor Lebrun ... accepted with alacrity.  (source)
    alacrity = eagerness
  • "All right," Beauty Smith spoke up with the alacrity of fear.  (source)
    alacrity = liveliness
  • "Certainly," he replied with alacrity, and stood up to put it in train for speaking.  (source)
    alacrity = quickness
  • This heightened alacrity had its cause, namely, the impression made upon him by the first formal gangway-punishment he had ever witnessed, which befell the day following his impressment.  (source)
    alacrity = liveliness and eagerness (in this context, Billy Budd's eagerness to quickly do his duty)
  • He had a uniform jacket with one button off, and seeing a white man on the path, hoisted his weapon to his shoulder with alacrity.  (source)
    alacrity = quickness (liveliness and eagerness)
  • And then a number of brisk young men began with remarkable alacrity to tidy up the goods that remained disturbed.  (source)
    alacrity = quickness; and/or cheerful eagerness
  • Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but alacrity in his heart.  (source)
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