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gay

full of or showing high-spirited merriment

Examples

  • when hearts were young and gay
  • a poet could not but be gay, in such a jocund company- Wordsworth
  • the jolly crowd at the reunion
  • jolly old Saint Nick

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turn around

improve significantly

Usage Examples
  • go from bad to good
  • Her performance in school picked up

predatory

living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey

Usage Examples
  • a predatory bird
  • the rapacious wolf
  • raptorial birds
  • ravening wolves

hush

become quiet or still

Usage Examples
  • fall silent
  • hush my baby!

confidently

with confidence

Usage Examples
  • in a confident manner

proportionately

to a proportionate degree

Usage Examples
  • your salary will rise proportionately to your workload
  • the height of this wall must be reduced proportionately to give the room pleasant dimensions

intermediately

to an intermediate degree

Usage Examples
  • intermediately hot

iniquitously

in an iniquitous manner

Usage Examples
  • they really believed that the treaty of Versailles was iniquitously injust

in full swing

proceeding with full vigor

Usage Examples
  • the party was in full swing

ruinously

in a ruinous manner or to a ruinous degree

Usage Examples
  • ruinously high wages

Princeton University "About WordNet." WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

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