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enlivening - definition and meaning
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noun
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verb enliven .
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adjective
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She was a bright child: she finished all the textbooks on the first day of school and, bored, spent the rest of the term enlivening her classmates.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
She was a bright child: she finished all the textbooks on the first day of school and, bored, spent the rest of the term enlivening her classmates.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
She was a bright child: she finished all the textbooks on the first day of school and, bored, spent the rest of the term enlivening her classmates.
The Women’s Room Marilyn French 1977
The reason it’s enlivening is because of the pace is accelerated through ultra-short paragraphs.
Three Techniques to Avoid Being a Boring Writer | Write to Done 2009
I.N.C. had now resolved to take no risks; they entered into negotiations with Sem Benelli, a well-known poet of the school which some critics call enlivening and other critics call inflammatory.
The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2 Henry Baerlein 1917
Vanity Fair, namely enlivening a potentially stuffy period flick by switching the locale to somewhere far more exotic.
DVD Times 2009
Suggestions already included the addition of a new Anzac gallery at the war memorial along with Anzac scholarships and "enlivening " commemorations with new monuments abroad ".
Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010
Suggestions already included the addition of a new Anzac gallery at the war memorial along with Anzac scholarships and "enlivening " commemorations with new monuments abroad ".
Latest News - Yahoo!7 News 2010
Now we have Fred Kaplan's enlivening "1959: The Year Everything Changed," which really could be called The Fifties, but that was already taken by journalist David Halberstam's fine historical account in 1993.
Tom Alderman: 1950s: The Not-So-Silent Generation Tom Alderman 2010
If the horn is buried for the entire winter — the season when the Earth is most inwardly alive — all this life will be preserved in the manure, turning the contents of the horn into an extremely concentrated, enlivening and fertilizing force.
Biodynamics: Natural Wonder or Just a Horn of Manure? jaY MCINERNEY 2010
GHibbs commented on the word enlivening
My adjectival use: 'Swimming is often an enlivening experience.'
August 22, 2011