What's the difference between convivial and vivacious?

Convivial


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It celebrates smoking's conviviality and the splendid isolation of the smoker, the smoker's exhibitionism and her pensive introversion.
  • (2) There’s a friendly and convivial atmosphere in the beautiful base town of Waterton on the shore of the deepest lake in the Canadian Rockies.
  • (3) The emphasis is always on conviviality and enjoyment; on learning skills that have been lost over the last few decades – how to cook, grow food, repair and make things.
  • (4) Further east, in the Arade river nature reserve, is rural turismo Tapada do Gramacho (doubles from €75, tapadadogramacho.com ) with its convivial communal kitchen.
  • (5) Guests, who included Margaret Thatcher, Bill Clinton and Bill Gates, said the serenity encouraged candidness and conviviality.
  • (6) Desire to drink was greater in both Stressful and Convivial situations for those who scored higher on Neuroticism, Convivial Situations for those higher on Depression (Beck), and Boring situations for those higher on Sensation Seeking.
  • (7) It doesn't mean we couldn't design a more convivial way that promotes wellbeing.
  • (8) "It covers the cost of my travel and allows me to meet lots of interesting people – it's a convivial way to travel."
  • (9) Paris and Brussels are two very similar cities, very dynamic, convivial and warm,” said Hidalgo.
  • (10) When he ordered the bottle I had hoped sharing a drink might stoke conviviality but as the interview wears on it is clear the booze is to sustain him through the ordeal.
  • (11) He then became much more convivial, chatting about Washington Heights, where he was from, saying that he’d much rather be at home eating dinner with his family.
  • (12) It makes for more convivial towns and cities, can produce a more resilient food economy and acts as an important buffer against the extremes of a warming climate.
  • (13) Two and a half years ago, Women for Independence began as an inspired idea, given life over a convivial meal among like-minded women.
  • (14) At an EU foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg on Saturday, the usual diplomatic conviviality unravelled as they failed to agree any practical steps out of the crisis.
  • (15) Once again, most of us will feel like spectators to the biggest debate about life on earth: whether or not to maintain convivial environmental conditions for human civilisation.
  • (16) But among the convivial crowds also stood a white man wearing a baseball cap and shirt that read “Hillary for Prison”.
  • (17) One concern arising from this widened perspective is the degree to which health service provision promotes healthier, more convivial communities.
  • (18) Still, the relative conviviality concealed major divisions between the security agencies and their congressional overseers.
  • (19) When Labour’s business team are out with the great and the good from Britain’s boardrooms over a City dinner, there has of late been a moment when the convivial hum of chatter subsides – and someone mentions the mansion tax.
  • (20) Photograph: Mike Bowers for the Guardian It’s more formal than his old parliamentary digs, which had the convivial feel of salon, or lair.

Vivacious


Definition:

  • (a.) Having vigorous powers of life; tenacious of life; long-lived.
  • (a.) Sprightly in temper or conduct; lively; merry; as, a vivacious poet.
  • (a.) Living through the winter, or from year to year; perennial.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In court on Wednesday, Masipa described Steenkamp as “young, vivacious, full of life and hopes for the future”.
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Jo Cox: ‘We’ve lost a great star’ – video obituary “Jo Cox was the most vivacious, personable, dynamic and committed friend you could ever have,” he said.
  • (3) In the 2nd week, however, a vivacious bone remodelling with wide Haversian canals and vessels starts from the medial cortex as could be seen identically in every series of our experiments.
  • (4) Reviewing, the Guardian’s Andrew Clements admired the work’s vivid and vivacious writing.
  • (5) Most foreigners were struck by the affluence, vivacious commerce and great manufacturing capacity of the Georgians.
  • (6) Judy was under five feet tall, a sprightly figure, vivacious and pretty rather than beautiful, her pale skin accentuated by the bright red of her lips in the old three-strip Technicolor.
  • (7) Fibroblasts which vivaciously produced collagenous material invaded the xenografts and built up solid strands of connective tissue which tightly contacted surviving tumor cells.
  • (8) Her mother, Sally, described the four-week trial as an "awful experience" in which her "happy vivacious, fun-loving girl" had been defamed.
  • (9) The second group of dogs never became normoglycemic but remained vivacious; insulin level in their splenic vein increased moderately only after glucose injection.
  • (10) "When you hit it right on guitars in pop, it can be vivacious and exuberant and shiny.
  • (11) Produced by Sikandar Khan, Anjunaa Beach, which portrays Keeling as a vivacious teenager who rode elephants, hung out at beach shacks and occasionally took drugs, is already the subject of controversy.
  • (12) She described Steenkamp as “young, vivacious, full of life and hopes for the future”.
  • (13) The EMG findings were characterized by vivacious spontaneous activity and the high rate of different EMG pattern in one patient.
  • (14) "Her books are very popular and she's so vivacious," Donaldson said.
  • (15) Priya was the vivacious one, a bright five- year-old who loved music and wanted to be a teacher.
  • (16) Be playful and vivacious, but lose the teenage fantasy that you don't depend on anyone and they don't depend on you."
  • (17) Friends described her as vivacious, upbeat and larger than life.
  • (18) The bunny "has a sexual meaning", he said, "because it's a fresh animal, shy, vivacious, jumping – sexy.
  • (19) Gone are the dark days when Catwoman and the Shadow prowled the murky recesses of the Blockbuster Video bargain bucket: instead, comic book fans have been treated to a series of vivacious and well-planned Marvel Studios films culminating in last year's $1.5bn The Avengers .
  • (20) They waited nine years for justice for their "happy and vivacious" daughter Milly.