vigor
Other forms: vigors
If your new puppy runs all over the house, jumps on the furniture, and enthusiastically chews up your socks, you may congratulate yourself on your new pup's vigor, or lively sense of energy.
Aside from mental or physical vitality, the noun vigor can be applied to an imaginative style of thought or expression and also to a forceful intensity. "The jury was not only willing to acquit the defendant, but also nominate him for sainthood, by the time his attorney had delivered, with vigor, an impassioned plea for his client's innocence."
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forceful exertion
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active strength of body or mindsynonyms: dynamism, heartiness, vigourtype of:strengththe property of being physically or mentally strong
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an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)synonyms: energy, muscularity, vigour, vim
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Vocabulary lists containing vigor
In 1776, Isabel is enslaved by British loyalists. When she begins to work as a spy for American revolutionaries, she discovers that neither side is interested in her freedom—and decides to do something about it.
Marigolds are tropical American plants with showy yellow or orange flowers. But in Eugenia Collier's short story, they mean much more to the old woman who grows them, the young girl who destroys them, and the grown-up narrator who remembers them. Here are all the word lists to support the reading of Grade 9 Unit 1's texts from SpringBoard's Common Core ELA series: Speak, Marigolds, Always Running, 'Race' Politics, WMDs, Chuck Liddell, Address to America's Schoolchildren, An Early Start on College, Why College Isn't for Everyone, Actually, College Is Very Much Worth It