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  • 41vital — Synonyms and related words: abiding, aboveground, acid, age long, aged, agog, alacritous, alive, alive and kicking, all agog, among the living, ancient, animate, animated, animating, antic, antique, anxious, armipotent, authoritative, avid, bang …

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  • 42vivacious — Synonyms and related words: active, activist, activistic, acute, aggressive, agog, alacritous, alert, alive, all agog, animate, animated, antic, anxious, avid, blithe, bouncing, bouncy, breathless, breezy, brisk, bubbly, buoyant, bursting to,… …

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  • 43waggish — Synonyms and related words: antic, arch, capersome, comic, comical, devilish, droll, elfish, elvish, facetious, foolish, frolicsome, full of mischief, funny, gamesome, high spirited, humorous, impish, jocose, jocular, knavish, laughable,… …

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  • 44zestful — Synonyms and related words: active, acute, aggressive, agog, alacritous, all agog, animated, antic, anxious, avid, bracing, breathless, brisk, burning, bursting to, capersome, cheering, coltish, cordial, crisp, crispy, curried, desirous, dynamic …

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  • 45zippy — Synonyms and related words: active, acute, aggressive, alert, animated, antic, brisk, burning, capersome, catty, coltish, curried, dynamic, energetic, enterprising, enthusiastic, exuberant, forceful, forcible, frisky, frolicsome, full of beans,… …

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  • 46jaunty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. stylish, sprightly, smart, dapper, sporty (inf.); gay, breezy, brisk, debonair; jolly, ebullient, vivacious, cavalier, cocky (inf.) See fashion, cheerfulness, ostentation. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn …

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  • 47sportive — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. gay, playful, sprightly; see active 2 , jaunty . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. playful, fun, romping, merry, joking, frisky, roguish, frolicsome, gamesome, jaunty. ANT.: serious, grave, earnest III (Roget s Thesaurus …

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  • 48agog — [15] Agog probably comes from Old French gogue ‘merriment’. It was used in the phrase en gogue, meaning ‘enjoying oneself’ (Randle Cotgrave, in his Dictionarie of the French and English tongues 1611, defines estre en ses gogues as ‘to be frolicke …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 49game — {{11}}game (adj.1) lame, 1787, from north Midlands dialect, of unknown origin, perhaps a variant of gammy (tramps slang) bad, or from O.N.Fr. gambe leg (see GAMBOL (Cf. gambol) (n.)). {{12}}game (adj.2) brave, spirited, 1725, especially in game… …

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  • 50frolicsome — a. Sportive, playful, gamesome, gay, lively, frisky, coltish, full of frolic, frolic …

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