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Lilt

To do anything with animation and quickness, as to skip, fly, or hop.

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Articulate 76% connected

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.

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Enounce 76% connected

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument.

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Enunciate 76% connected

To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.

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Pronounce 76% connected

To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn…

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Say 76% connected

Saw.

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Swing 92% connected

To move to and fro, as a body suspended in the air; to wave; to vibrate; to oscillate.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Activeness noun · 78% connection

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

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Acumen noun · 78% connection

Quickness of perception or discernment; penetration of mind; the faculty of nice discrimination.

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Agility noun · 78% connection

The quality of being agile; the power of moving the limbs quickly and easily; nimbleness; activity; quickness of motion; as, strength…

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Aptness noun · 78% connection

Quickness of apprehension; readiness in learning; docility; as, an aptness to learn is more observable in some children than in others.

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Brisk adjective · 78% connection

Full of liveliness and activity; characterized by quickness of motion or action; lively; spirited; quick.

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Briskness noun · 78% connection

Liveliness; vigor in action; quickness; gayety; vivacity; effervescence.

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Caper verb · 78% connection

To leap or jump about in a sprightly manner; to cut capers; to skip; to spring; to prance; to dance.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: anything, animation, quickness, skip.
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Celerity noun · 78% connection

Rapidity of motion; quickness; swiftness.

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Clever adjective · 78% connection

Possessing quickness of intellect, skill, dexterity, talent, or adroitness; expert.

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Conceit noun · 78% connection

Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.

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Dabchick noun · 78% connection

A small water bird (Podilymbus podiceps), allied to the grebes, remarkable for its quickness in diving; -- called also dapchick, dobch…

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Dance verb · 78% connection

To move nimbly or merrily; to express pleasure by motion; to caper; to frisk; to skip about.

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Dexterity noun · 78% connection

Readiness in the use or control of the mental powers; quickness and skill in managing any complicated or difficult affair; adroitness.

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Drakestone noun · 78% connection

A flat stone so thrown along the surface of water as to skip from point to point before it sinks; also, the sport of so throwing stone…

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Expedition noun · 78% connection

The quality of being expedite; efficient promptness; haste; dispatch; speed; quickness; as to carry the mail with expedition.

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Fertility noun · 78% connection

The state or quality of being fertile or fruitful; fruitfulness; productiveness; fecundity; richness; abundance of resources; fertile…

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Flisk verb · 78% connection

To frisk; to skip; to caper.

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Foot verb · 78% connection

To tread to measure or music; to dance; to trip; to skip.

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