vigour

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun forceful exertion
  2. noun active strength of body or mind
  3. noun an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing)

Etymology

From Middle English vigour, from Old French vigour, from vigor, from Latin vigor, from vigeō (“thrive, flourish”), from Proto-Indo-European *weǵ- (“to be lively”). Related to vigil, vegetable, vajra, and waker.

In classic literature

Synonyms

energy, vigor, zip

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