All 3 Uses
vivacious
in
The Fall of the House of Usher
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- Upon my entrance, Usher arose from a sofa on which he had been lying at full length, and greeted me with a vivacious warmth which had much in it, I at first thought, of an overdone cordiality—of the constrained effort of the ennuye; man of the world.†
- His action was alternately vivacious and sullen.†
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- Could I have judged, indeed, by the wild overstrained air of vivacity with which he harkened, or apparently harkened, to the words of the tale, I might well have congratulated myself upon the success of my design.†
vivacity = engaging liveliness
Definitions:
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(1)
(vivacious) having an engaging liveliness -- when said of a person, typically said of a female
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)