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Word of the Day for Saturday, June 20, 2009ebullient \ih-BUL-yuhnt\, adjective: 1. Overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; high-spirited. The glasses he wore for astigmatism gave him a deceptively clerkish appearance, for he had an ebullient, gregarious personality, a hot temper, and an outsized imagination. He was no longer an ebullient, energetic adolescent. Sometimes he would come back from the Drenchery Club holding on to the walls till he got to my office, where he'd be jolly and ebullient. At other times, he'd return morose. Ebullient comes from Latin ebullire, "to bubble up," from e-, "out of, from" + bullire, "to bubble, to boil." | |||||||||
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