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Spirited

adjective

Displaying animation, vigor, or liveliness.

Marked by lively action. Synonyms: bouncing, bouncy, peppy, zippy. "Bouncy tunes" , "The peppy and interesting talk" , "A spirited dance"

Willing to face danger. Synonyms: game, gamey, gamy, gritty, mettlesome, spunky.

Made lively or spirited. Synonym: enlivened. "A spirited debate"

Spirit

verb

(past & past part. spirited; pres. part. spiriting)

Infuse with spirit. Synonyms: inspirit, spirit up.

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... William Days; so well-to-do; so respected in the place; who had their annual dance last night, all the nicest, most desirable people of the town present. No one's dance was so nicely managed, so spirited, so successful ...

— Mrs. Day's Daughters • Mary E. Mann

... an extremely graceful and spirited dance, in a continual chassez. An unlimited number may join; it is danced ...

— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... discomfited pedagogue. During the excursion on shore, some of the Josephines had told him that the trouble between Paul and the professor had been on his account; and he had made the confession in order to justify the captain, at whatever cost to himself. The spirited conduct of the young commander had filled the boys with admiration, and they were determined that he should not ...

— Dikes and Ditches - Young America in Holland and Belguim • Oliver Optic

... Christian and Hopeful would have been more than human if they had not both felt and let fall some superiority, some scorn, and some impatience in the presence of such a silly and upsetting stripling as Ignorance was; as, also, over the story of such a poor-spirited and spunging creature as Little-Faith was. Christian and Hopeful had just come down from their delightful time among the Delectable Mountains, and they were as full as they could hold of all kinds of knowledge, and faith, and hope, and assurance; when, ...

— Bunyan Characters (Second Series) • Alexander Whyte

... view was, I think, justifiable. Leaving out the intolerable implication that Lance had showered benefits upon her, she felt that the Lorrigans had been over-generous. The schoolhouse and the books might be accepted as a public-spirited effort to do their part. But the piano, since it had not been returned, must be paid for. And it seemed to Mary Hope that the Lorrigans themselves would deeply resent being invited to a dance openly given for the purpose of raising money to repay them. It ...

— Rim o' the World • B. M. Bower

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