What's the difference between vivacious and zealous?

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.

Zealous


Definition:

  • (a.) Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object.
  • (a.) Filled with religious zeal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Republicans were under pressure not to dwell on Clinton’s use of a private email server as too zealous an attack could come off as partisan.
  • (2) More than 60 officers, who might be investigating a burglary in your street, are zealously pursuing other cops and public officials who may, or may not, have taken bungs from Sun journalists in return for information.
  • (3) His allies charge the prime minister with cowardice for dispatching one of his most zealously reforming ministers.
  • (4) Abaaoud’s older sister, Yasmina, told the New York Times in January that neither of the brothers showed a zealous interest in religion before leaving for Syria.
  • (5) Asked about the plan, Baker said on Monday that "both sides of the coalition" wanted high streets to prosper and that he agreed that over-zealous action by traffic wardens could be a problem.
  • (6) Care must be taken to guard against the health worker being overly zealous in motivating and mobilizing potential voluntary sterilization contraception candidates.
  • (7) Colonel David Black of the Queen's Lancashire Regiment says soldiers need to operate without being worried about "over-zealous and remote officialdom".
  • (8) After a zealous assessment of respective anatomical merits, attention switched to flaws.
  • (9) Those who leave the left are often those who end up detesting it more: becoming a convert often means being more zealous than existing believers.
  • (10) Sutherland said the Co-op bank's bad loans were mostly accounted for by Britannia, with half of all its poorly performing retail loans and three quarters of its roughly £440m corporate bad debts blamed on over-zealous loan agreements sold by the building society.
  • (11) Miller, too, earned Trump’s praise and widespread scorn for his zealous defense of the president and for peddling a baseless claim about phantom illegal voting.
  • (12) Most attempts to humanize medicine have at best been temporary, barely touching the margins of medicine and sustained largely by their zealous advocates.
  • (13) Arteta had been introduced as an early substitute for Coquelin, who hurt his knee in a zealous tackle on Claudio Yacob.
  • (14) In that sense, zealous neoconservatism may not be the cleverest political option, and May's ideas may yet point the way ahead.
  • (15) It has been zealously guarded by the recipients of the letters themselves, and over the last few years, by the full might of the British state and government, as Whitehall has fought every step of the way to stop the Freedom of Information Act disclosure of the letters to Rob Evans of the Guardian.
  • (16) When finally open public welfare was translated into reality during 1918-1933 as a result of the zealous efforts on the part of the reformatory psychiatrists, this was mainly done to save cost, whereas Kolb's original aims were largely lost in the process.
  • (17) Then, one evening, her zealous son accused her of tacitly criticising Mao.
  • (18) They are in the firing line if they do not endorse a zealous world view.
  • (19) They are beaten up and raped daily and it's not because they feel bad about themselves or have been got at by some zealous politically correct propaganda.
  • (20) Behind him lies the zealous, over-confident Dominic Cummings, his special adviser at education – forced out – humiliated at the Treasury select committee when his version of reality collided with its clever Tory chairman, Andrew Tyrie.