Tuesday, May 12, 2015

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Abigail Adams: "We have too many high sounding words and too few actions that correspond with them."


Ebullient -  eh-BULL-yuhnt \adjective\ (1599): feeling joy and positive emotions at an extreme level; the state of being wildly enthusiastic about something. Roget's Thesaurus of Words for Writers.

Synonyms - agitated, effervescent, vivacious, enthusiastic, excited. Webster's New World Thesaurus
                                      
"According to all of them, Heidi, fewer than twenty-four hours from being murdered in her home, had been her usual ebullient self." from The Stranger by Harlan Coben, 2015.

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