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• n  liveliness and eagerness
  he accepted with alacrity

• When their boss invited them to lunch, Diane and Tom accepted his invitation with alacrity.
• The startup company grabbed the chance to showcase their product with alacrity.
• Pamela responded with alacrity and joy once she heard that she had been chosen for the national soccer team.

• briskness
• smartness

News & Articles

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• Keidel: Bob Costas Blurs Line Between Illuminating And Illuminati
  If you consider that Costas -- whose mental and semantic alacrity once made him the exemplar of sports broadcasting -- is deep into the back-nine of his career, perhaps his fits of shock-jock rhetoric are somewhat expected.
  June 17, 2013 - CBS New York

Quotes

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• Raymond Kelly in DNAinfo
  New York can breathe a little easier today,NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly said Tuesday. "That's due in large measure to the investigative muscle and alacrity of NYPD detectives and FBI agents."
• Dennis Miller in USA Today
  It's not just a game show where we're out there smacking buttons all the time and trying to do speed and alacrity. There's some sort of a whimsical walk through a person's life, sort of like Ralph Edwards on This Is Your Life,says Miller, who...
• Martin Luther King in Guerrilla News Network
  The federal government, King pointed out, was appropriating "military funds with alacrity and generosity" - but "poverty funds with miserliness."