What's the difference between cavort and lethargic?

Cavort


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To prance ostentatiously; -- said of a horse or his rider.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So Richard arose as himself again, a dreadful apparition cavorting.
  • (2) Unutma Meni (Don't Forget Me) features the 33-year-old brunette under the stage name GooGoosha - apparently her father's name for her - cavorting in a cartoon wonderland where she travels to a secluded castle and a tropical island in a limousine that floats through the air.
  • (3) Dadd's three paintings Puck (1841), A Fairy – Sunset (1841-42) and Come unto these Yellow Sands (1842) are elegant and precise – the Puck is a baby, sitting on a mushroom in moonlight under a columbine dripping with dewdrops, among grasses also beaded with water, and watches much smaller naked dancers cavorting below him.
  • (4) Lucas Moura, Robinho and Kaká will also have the opportunity to enjoy some Me Time this summer, while Manchester City and Everton favourite Jô cavorts about in gold and blue.
  • (5) Cavorting in Grantchester’s meadows, Brooke told the naked Gardner: “You’ve rather a beautiful body.” Gardner, letting her hair down, offered to dry him with her tresses, with “why shouldn’t we be primitive, now?” Her desires were obvious, but his were tormented.
  • (6) I am not going to punish you, I just want you to explain to the people and me how do I show off?” asks Kadyrov, who routinely posts photos to his Instagram account of him beating underlings in mixed martial-arts fights, hosting celebrities and other high-profile visitors, and cavorting with his collection of exotic animals.
  • (7) A bargain basement Benny Hill he may be, but the prime minister fonder of cavorting with young women than keeping promises to the world's poorest countries has helped expose what a cynical shambles the G8 summit has become.
  • (8) This is, after all, a musician, actress and multimedia performance artist who as a kid attended a nursery school where there were rumoured to be satanic cults, afterwards confessing that she was pissed off that there actually weren't; who appeared in a Calvin Klein "heroin chic" ad campaign that led to dope dealers on her block in New York naming a strain of junk after her; who has been a wrestler and appeared in numerous Super 8 horror and fetish movies; who was mugged to within an inch of her life but survived; who mimes onstage fornication with a skeleton symbolising her deceased boyfriend and other such transgressive acts including cracking paint-filled eggs on her vulva; who has cavorted in the recording studio with notorious coprophiliac GG Allin; who was into body mutilation and dysmorphia and so wanted to challenge preconceived notions of female sexuality that she SEWED UP HER VAGINA.
  • (9) Early in 1999 a government-controlled TV channel aired a grainy video which purported to show Skuratov cavorting in bed with a couple of prostitutes.
  • (10) Stand back from the cavorting as Rupert hits crisis-torn Wapping (episode 97) and ask the question that's been dogging News Corporation ever since the phone hacking swamp began.
  • (11) If it's not Miley Cyrus licking a sledgehammer , it's Robin Thicke cavorting with naked women or Lily Allen having liposuction and getting dancers to twerk for her.
  • (12) The France coach had predicted a fight to the last eight and, while others cavorted around the technical area, he held his beaten opponent’s hand with the respect the Republic of Ireland deserved.
  • (13) The undertow of barely suppressed concern was evident at a pre-kickoff press conference in the bowels of the Stade de France that began with the official mascot, Super Victor , cavorting with the DJ David Guetta, who will appear at the opening ceremony, but ended with a slew of questions on security and strikes.
  • (14) Lady Gaga's performance on ITV's the X Factor, in which the singer cavorted on stage in flesh-coloured underwear and a bra made out of a pair of shells, has been cleared of breaking UK broadcasting rules.
  • (15) Therefore Assad should not be surprised if one day he finds that, while Iran supports him publicly, behind the scenes its leaders are anticipating his demise by cavorting with members of the Syrian opposition.
  • (16) Photograph: Sam Frost The Marvel character Thor can be spotted at Stonehenge in a story called Day of the Deadly Druid and both Scooby-Doo and Xena: Warrior Princess have also cavorted around cartoon versions of the monument.
  • (17) He tells me that Boris had suggested that Edward and Gaveston cavorted in a palace built in 1325, even though Gaveston had been executed in 1312.
  • (18) Perhaps these two men had been cavorting about on a busy beach strutting their stuff in front of everyone, petting each other or even propositioning people?
  • (19) 1: Cavorting courtesans At the work's heart is one of the most sumptuous collections of nudes ever painted.
  • (20) The emotions ran wild at full time, with the travelling supporters cavorting in delight and Dick Advocaat breaking down in tears for what he would later say was the first time in his long career.

Lethargic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Lethargical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Neurological examination revealed a lethargic man with good orientation to three spheres.
  • (2) These pigs also seemed more lethargic than controls and appeared sedated.
  • (3) On the other hand, the patient was noticed lethargic and showed parkinsonism i.e., rest tremor, cog-wheel rigidity, and hypokinesia.
  • (4) Physically, the patient appeared lethargic, and breathing sounds revealed diffuse rales and wheezing.
  • (5) Only miracidia classified as "active" or "slow" were capable of penetration, a capacity they retained for about 17 hours at 19 degrees C. Miracidia that were "lethargic" as a result of low temperature, old age or ultra-violet radiation lost their infective capacity.
  • (6) The colchicine-treated rats were lethargic and hypothermic as compared to controls.
  • (7) For the most part, however, this was a night when some familiar old failings could be detected in terms of England looking lethargic in possession.
  • (8) "People are now lethargic and listless because of starvation.
  • (9) Considered to be intoxicated from the acute effects of sniffing toluene or methylene chloride, the patient remained lethargic and ataxic despite removal from exposure and administration of supplemental oxygen.
  • (10) Upon presentation to the ED approximately 2.5 hr post-ingestion, the child was very lethargic and respirations were depressed.
  • (11) The child remained lethargic for several hours but otherwise had a normal neurological examination.
  • (12) The Gijon goalkeeper Ivan Cuellar was on fine form, particularly against Ronaldo, while Real’s approach play looked lethargic and too many passes went astray.
  • (13) A comfortable win was secured early here with Eddie Howe’s team, rightly lauded for their own achievements this season and previously unbeaten away this calendar year, made to look uncharacteristically timid, even lethargic at times, as Spurs swarmed all over them.
  • (14) Case 1: A 48-year-old woman, who complained of severe headache and vomiting on Feb. 10th, 1972, gradually became lethargic.
  • (15) Infected dogs were anorectic and lethargic and developed cutaneous lesions characteristic of Rocky Mountain spotted fever, including petechia, ecchymosis, edema, and necrosis.
  • (16) Lunch had an effect on mood, with subjects feeling more lethargic, feeble, clumsy, muzzy, dreamy, bored and mentally slow after the meal.
  • (17) Ataxia was not prominent in animals affected with transmissible mink encephalopathy; these animals gradually became more and more lethargic.
  • (18) On this day, though, the atmosphere became increasingly lethargic as the game wound down and Chelsea went out of the cup.
  • (19) This was one of their most convincing performances of the season, although it must be said that an uncharacteristically lethargic Everton contributed to their own downfall.
  • (20) These animals became lethargic, slouched and developed dyspnoea which became progressively more severe during the course of the study.