| 单词 | verve |
| 释义 | verve (once / 8827 pages) n If something has an energetic style or vitality, you can say it has verve. Dancers are noted for their verve on the stage. Morticians? Not so much. Similar words to verve include vim, vigor, and élan. Verve comes from the Latin root word verba, meaning words, and in English originally meant a special talent in writing. Although the "special talent" sense is now archaic, verve is still an excellent choice to describe a writing style. WORD FAMILYverve USAGE EXAMPLESTheir attack was exponentially better, and Patrick Vieira got them playing with verve even on the road until that playoff sequence. The Guardian(Dec 14, 2016) Compositional verve and common sense are often at exhilarating odds in Sarah McRae Morton’s work. Seattle Times(Dec 13, 2016) There’s even more verve in the musical parodies of “Popstar” than in the strenuous emptiness, forced whimsy, and programmed emotion of “La La Land.” The New Yorker(Dec 08, 2016) n an energetic style Syn|Hypo|Hyper vitality light, spark, sparkle, twinkle merriment expressed by a brightness or gleam or animation of countenance energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing) |
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