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allegro collapse: a musical composition or passage performed quickly in a brisk lively manner; a brisk and lively tempo; (of tempo) fast; in a quick and lively tempo; "play this section allegro"

elfin collapse: small and delicate; "she was an elfin creature--graceful and delicate"; "obsessed by things elfin and small"; suggestive of an elf in strangeness and otherworldliness; "thunderbolts quivered with elfin flares of heat lightning"; "the fey quality was there, the ability to see the moon at midday"- John Mason Brown; usually good-naturedly mischievous; "perpetrated a practical joke with elfin delight"; "elvish tricks"; relating to or made or done by or as if by an elf; "elfin bells"; "all the little creatures joined in the elfin dance"

in full swing collapse: proceeding with full vigor; "the party was in full swing"

witty collapse: combining clever conception and facetious expression; "his sermons were unpredictably witty and satirical as well as eloquent"

genius collapse: exceptional creative ability; someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; "Mozart was a child genius"; "he's smart but he's no Einstein"

intuition collapse: instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes); an impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"

imagination collapse: the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses; "popular imagination created a world of demons"; "imagination reveals what the world could be"; the ability to form mental images of things or events; "he could still hear her in his imagination"

humorous collapse: full of or characterized by humor; "humorous stories"; "humorous cartoons"; "in a humorous vein"

catty collapse: any of various units of weight used in southeastern Asia (especially a Chinese measure equal to 500 grams)

apprehension collapse: the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"; painful expectation; fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

salty collapse: containing or filled with salt; "salt water"; one of the four basic taste sensations; like the taste of sea water

gamesmanship collapse: the use of dubious (although not technically illegal) methods to win a game

jester collapse: a professional clown employed to entertain a king or nobleman in the middle ages

wit collapse: a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

conceit collapse: the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; an artistic device or effect; "the architect's brilliant conceit was to build the house around the tree"; a witty or ingenious turn of phrase; "he could always come up with some inspired off-the-wall conceit"; an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things

rousing collapse: rousing to activity or heightened action as by spurring or goading; "tossed a rousing political comment into the conversation"; capable of arousing enthusiasm or excitement; "a rousing sermon"; "stirring events such as wars and rescues"

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