vim
lively and vigorous energy or enthusiasm
Word origin: From Latin vis, force or strength.
Vim in a sentence
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Despite her age, the professor delivered every lecture with unmistakable vim and enthusiasm.
Despite her age, she pursued the research with a vim that exhausted assistants half her years.
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The professor's lectures were notoriously blank; students often left more puzzled than when they had arrived, unable to follow his tangled chains of reasoning.
Using “vim” well
Vim means lively, vigorous energy or enthusiasm, often paired with vigor in the phrase vim and vigor. It is the opposite of lethargy or apathy.
More GRE words starting with V
to waver indecisively between options or opinions
the inability to decide between different courses of action; wavering
total absence of thought, ideas, or substance
empty of meaning, substance, or intelligence
a person who roams from place to place with no fixed home
an unpredictable or capricious change or notion
a person who wanders without a settled home or work
excessively boastful and vain about one's achievements
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