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VIGOR
energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim
(noun) an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); “his writing conveys great energy”; “a remarkable muscularity of style”
vigor, vigour, dynamism, heartiness
(noun) active strength of body or mind
energy, vigor, vigour, zip
(noun) forceful exertion; “he plays tennis with great energy”; “he’s full of zip”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
vigor (countable and uncountable, plural vigors)
(American spelling) Alternative form of vigour
Anagrams
• Virgo
Source: Wiktionary
Vig"or, n. Etym: [OE. vigour, vigor, OF. vigor, vigur, vigour, F. vigueur, fr. L. vigor, fr. vigere to be lively or strong. See Vegetable, Vigil.]
1. Active strength or force of body or mind; capacity for exertion, physically, intellectually, or morally; force; energy. The vigor of this arm was never vain. Dryden.
2. Strength or force in animal or force in animal or vegetable nature or action; as, a plant grows with vigor.
3. Strength; efficacy; potency. But in the fruithful earth . . . His beams, unactive else, their vigor find. Milton.
Note: Vigor and its derivatives commonly imply active strength, or the power of action and exertion, in distinction from passive strength, or strength to endure.
Vig"or, v. t.
Definition: To invigorate. [Obs.] Feltham.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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