vivify
to give life or vigor to; to enliven
Vivify in a sentence
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A few well-chosen anecdotes vivified an otherwise dry lecture.
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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.
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