Definitions for verve

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Spelling: [vurv]
IPA: /vɜrv/

Verve is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in verve (eervv).

Definitions for verve

noun

  1. enthusiasm or vigor, as in literary or artistic work; spirit:
  2. vivaciousness; liveliness; animation:
  3. Archaic. talent.

Origin of verve

1690-1700; French: enthusiasm, whim, chatter, apparently Latin verba words, talk, plural (taken in VL as feminine singular) of verbum word; see verb

Examples for verve

And a candidate with some verve— Michele Bachmann comes to mind—is catnip for the cameras.

A new history tells their remarkable story with sensitivity and verve writes Wendy Smith.

She is just about your size and dances with the verve of youth, which I admire extremely.

What is more, she writes with verve, tongue-in-cheek humor, and elegance.

Where the Austin building is nuanced and almost spectral, Bakersfield is all verve and gesture.

His execution (p. 063) had a verve whose charm was irresistible.

And so the question now is not only whether Ryan can reenergize the Romney campaign with his vision and verve.

He felt anew what he had felt and seen, and he could not give any verve to the peroration of his sermon.

The vigour and verve of these marching musicians is very surprising.

There was a verve, a magnetic quality to her, that he hardly remembered before.

Word Value for verve
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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