Sample Sentences for
vivacious
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    She's a vivacious high school senior who has captured the nations heart.
    vivacious = having an engaging liveliness
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    The destruction of this little country church and the deaths—including the pastor's vivacious 4-year-old daughter—have shaken the faith of many people who live in this deeply religious corner of Alabama,  (source)
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    He spoke very quickly, had a vivacious blue eye, and took an evident pleasure in quoting figures.  (source)
    vivacious = lively and engagingly
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    still I accosted him with what vivacity I could.  (source)
    vivacity = engaging liveliness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ity" converts a word to a noun that references a quality. So vivacity is quality of being vivacious as reality is the quality of being real and curiosity is the quality of being curious.
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    Snowball was a more vivacious pig than Napoleon, quicker in speech and more inventive, but was not considered to have the same depth of character.  (source)
    vivacious = lively and engaging
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    She described, rather vivaciously, how on this earlier occasion she had gone with a whole body of newly married couples, mostly Italians of all ranks, some of the simpler girls in their wedding dresses, and how each had appraised the other, the bridegrooms looking the brides over, comparing their own with one another's, and so forth.†  (source)
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    Sometimes he looks up at the vivaciousness in Mae's voice, and then he scrapes the griddle with a spatula, scrapes the grease into an iron trough around the plate.  (source)
    vivaciousness = engaging liveliness
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Janis gestured with unusual vivacity.  (source)
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    "But you have such dimples," said Anne, smiling affectionately into the pretty, vivacious face so near her own.  (source)
    vivacious = lively and engaging
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    Then vivaciously, 'My faith, your pilot-house wants a clean up!'†  (source)
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    This was vivaciousness through and through.†  (source)
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    When people have some slight disadvantage like that, they cultivate other things to make up for it-develop charm-and vivacity-and-charm!  (source)
    vivacity = engaging liveliness
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    His sister was almost as tall as I, with dark, vivacious eyes and a face almost exactly like Danny's, except that the sculptured lines were a good deal softer.  (source)
    vivacious = engaging and lively
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