fervid
intensely enthusiastic or passionate to an extreme degree
Word origin: From Latin fervere, to boil or glow.
Fervid in a sentence
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His fervid speeches whipped the assembly into a fever of indignation.
Her fervid defense of the program left no doubt about where her loyalties lay.
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Verbal · Text Completion
Critics initially dismissed the composer's late works as merely blank, but later scholars recognized in them a deliberate restraint that concealed considerable technical sophistication.
Using “fervid” well
Fervid denotes burning, often unrestrained passion, slightly more heated than fervent. Distinguish it from perfervid, meaning even more intense, and the unrelated fetid, meaning foul-smelling.
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