Vivify (verb)
viv-if-ai
Make more lively or interesting; enliven.
Late Middle English from French vivifier, from late Latin vivificare, from Latin vivus ‘living’, from vivere ‘to live’.
Example sentences
“If we vivify the entrance it’ll attract more people in.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)